A Utah man suspected of gunning down a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy and another man in a pair of seemingly random shootings was charged with two counts of murder Thursday, officials said.

Rhett McKenzie Nelson, 30, did not enter a plea during a brief court appearance Thursday after he was charged with the shooting deaths of veteran sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Solano and 30-year-old Dmitry Alekseyevich Kolstov, according to a statement issued by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.