Venezuelan authorities have arrested two men on charges related to the murder of an American expatriate lawyer at his Caracas home.
State prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz said Tuesday that two men in their 20s had been arrested in connection with the death of 70-year-old John Ralston Pate. Pate was found stabbed to death in his apartment in an upscale part of the city on Aug. 9. His companion Sally Elizabeth Evans was found wounded.
Pate's son said the attack looked like a robbery gone wrong.
Following the murder, the US Embassy in Caracas issued a statement reminding Americans that the city continues to be a dangerous place.
Pate moved to Venezuela in the 1970s and helped build a once-strong expat community.
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