Thread: Maryland officer suspected of murder, linked to 2 new shootings

Maryland officer suspected of murder, possibly linked to 2 new shootings, now in custody

Published May 06, 2016 FoxNews.com

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DEVELOPING: Police announced Friday they caught a federal officer wanted in connection with three possibly related shootings in Maryland that killed a total of three people, including his estranged wife.
Investigators said Eulalio Tordil, an officer working for the Federal Protective Service, shot and killed his wife, a chemistry teacher, outside their children's school in Beltsville Thursday. Tordil was wanted on a first-degree murder charge in that case.

Then on Friday morning, two shootings unfolded -- one at a mall parking lot in Bethesda, and one outside a supermarket in nearby Aspen Hill roughly 30 minutes later. Police said it was possble Tordil may have been the gunman in those shootings as well.

Beltsville, Bethesda and Aspen Hill are all Washington, DC suburbs.

Initially, one person was shot outside Westfield Montgomery Mall after some kind of confrontation, Montgomery County Assistant Police Chief Darryl McSwain said. He added that two others were shot after they rushed to the first person's aid. Paramedics rushed the three people shot -- two men and one woman -- to nearby Surburban Hospital, which went on lockdown.

One of the men died in the hospital. The other man was in critical condition, and police said they expected the woman who was shot to survive.

The shooting near the Giant Food supermarket in Aspen Hill left one woman dead Friday morning.

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Eulalio Tordil. (Prince George's County Police)


Prince George's County police said Eulalio Tordil, 62, followed his wife, 44-year-old Gladys Tordil, to High Point High School and shot her Thursday, also wounding a man who tried to intervene. Officials said the bystander had injuries that were not life-threatening.

Gladys Tordil had filed a protective order against her husband in March, claiming he abused one of her children and forced others to endure "intense-military-like discipline," The Washington Post reported. The wife also reportedly accused her husband of threatening to hurt her, saying he kept as many as five guns at home.

The Federal Protective Service said it put the officer on administrative duties after a civil court issued that protective order. His duty weapon, badge, and credentials were taken. He was subsequently placed on administrative leave.

The Federal Protective Service provides security at federal properties.

A witness at the mall, Jose Mauricio Gomez, told The Post he heard six to eight shots. He said an officer rushed to the woman who was wounded. “That’s when blood shot out of the hole in her shoulder and he sat her back down.”

Police closed off large parts of the mall's parking lot, with clothing and other debris strewn on the ground outside the Macy's there.

All Montgomery County schools and recreation centers went on lockdown, Fox 5 reported. However, some parts of the mall remained open.

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What is his immigration status and/or history?

Tordil worked for Homeland Security beginning in 2004, according to the website FederalPay.org.