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Suspect charged with murder in shooting of two Israeli embassy workers

Police cordon off Elias Rodriguez's apartment in Chicago, Illinois, on May 22 [Erin Hooley/AP Photo]

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a man suspected of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staff workers in the United States capital of Washington, DC.

In a federal court on Thursday, Elias Rodriguez was accused of two counts of first-degree murder, as well as charges of murdering foreign officials, causing death with a firearm and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence.

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