A 17-year-old boy was charged in court Monday on two counts of aggravated murder for the killing of Olga and Ruslan Prihodko, a Ukrainian-Israeli couple found dead last month in the Judean foothills.

The teenager, a resident of Lod whose name is barred from publication, is accused of fatally shooting the husband and wife while they were on a weekend excursion searching for relics near Mishmar Ayalon.

According to state prosecutors, the teenager got into an argument with the couple after they refused to give him metal detectors they had brought with them to the forest.

He then allegedly left the area for his family’s farm nearby, where he had hidden a Glock pistol he’d purchased earlier that year, then came back to shoot the couple point-blank in the head.

Prosecutors said that after killing the pair, the teenager stole their two metal detectors, credit cards and phones, and fled the scene. He is accused of attempting to stash the murder weapon at his house.

Police initially began probing the incident as a potential murder-suicide,........

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