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Cordarrow Thompson, 31, was charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, attempted armed robbery and one count of armed habitual criminal in the early Tuesday shooting death of Rafael Wordlaw, according to Cook County court records. Wordlaw, also 31, was off duty when he was fatally shot during a robbery attempt-turned-shootout at a gas station in the 500 block of East 67th Street, authorities said.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Russia, April 18, 2023. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
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