WASHINGTON >> The suspect accused of shooting two National Guard members in an ambush in downtown Washington, D.C., last week was charged today with murder and other offenses as he made his first court appearance, appearing remotely from a hospital bed.

A judge ordered Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, held in custody without bond, citing the “sheer terror” of the shooting blocks from the White House that killed one member of the National Guard and critically injured a second. Lakanwal, an Afghan national, traveled from Washington state to the U.S. capital to carry out the attack, prosecutors alleged.

A major in the Army National Guard of West Virginia shot Lakanwal and other members of the National Guard and a U.S. Secret Service officer then subdued him, according to the complaint.

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