WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is expected to indict a man accused of fatally shooting a couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in May on hate crime charges this week, sources told CBS News.

Elias Rodriguez, 30, from Chicago, was arrested by MPD on May 21. He is accused of killing 30-year-old Yaron Lischinsky and 26-year-old Sarah Lynn Milgrim, a couple who were expected to get engaged in Jerusalem the following week.

Lischinsky and Milgrim were outside the museum after an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee when they were shot. DC Police Chief Pamela Smith said Rodriguez began chanting, “Free, free Palestine” when he was being detained.

According to reporting from CBS News on Tuesday night, a source familiar with the matter claims the Department of Justice will move

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