WASHINGTON, Dec 2 — The suspect accused of shooting two National Guard members in an ambush in downtown Washington, D.C., last week was charged on Tuesday 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.

“It is fairly clear that he came across the country, 3,000 miles, armed, with a specific purpose in mind,” Renee Raymond, a magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., Superior Court, said during the hearing.

A lawyer for Lakanwal pushed for his release, citing his lack of criminal history.

Lakanwal, an Afghan natio

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