Police announced Friday they caught a federal officer wanted in connection with three shootings in Maryland that killed a total of three people, including his estranged wife, ending a hunt that left many people in the suburbs of Washington, DC on edge.
Officers arrested 62-year-old Eulalio Tordil, who was wanted on a first-degree murder charge, after they spotted him in his car in an Aspen Hill parking lot. Investigators said 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.
Then on Friday morning, two more shootings unfolded — one at a mall parking lot in Bethesda, and one outside a supermarket in Aspen Hill roughly 30 minutes later. Police said they had “reason to believe” Tordil was the gunman in those shootings as well. They also warned he’d threatened to “commit suicide by cop.”
Tordil ate lunch “calmly” at a Boston Market in Aspen Hill for about an hour after the Friday shootings, a witness told WJLA. Police said they had him under surveillance and caught him in his car after he left a Dunkin’ Donuts not far from the supermarket shooting scene. TV news cameras showed him walking out of the car with his hands up.
The suspect is a Federal Protective Service officer which provides security at federal properties.