Fox News reported that Eulalio Tordil was arrested on Friday in an Aspen Hill, Maryland, parking lot. A woman was killed and three people were wounded in two sho… They then pinned him in his auto and took him into custody.
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Before his arrest, police say Tordil shot an additional three people at Montgomery Mall, 15 miles away from the high school where Gladys Tordil was killed. He’s also charged with assault for shooting the good Samaritan at the school.
When they tried to intervene, Tordil shot and killed Winffel, then wounded the woman and the other man, Hamill said.
Court records show 62-year-old Eulalio Tordil of Adelphi was formally charged Saturday in Montgomery County with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Tordil is expected to have a bail review hearing on the Montgomery County charges on Monday. Winffel was shot outside the mall, and Molina was shot outside the shopping center.
Nobody was injured in the arrest, Hamill said. “He was such a wonderful person”.
It appeared Tordil followed her to the school property as she came to pick up her children and confronted her as she sat in her vehicle, police said.
“Those two men acted selflessly and heroically, most likely saving her life”, Hamill said.
“He always made people laugh, he was the clown”, she said. “It was like my son said this morning: He was like a superhero”.
Tordil had already been charged with first-degree murder in Prince George’s County for the shooting death of his estranged wife, Gladys, in a high-school parking lot Thursday.
He also shot an unidentified bystander trying to break up a fight between him and the 44-year-old, who had recently had filed a no-contact order against her husband after saying that he had abused her and her daughters.
Tordil confronted his wife on Thursday in the parking lot of High Point High School in Beltsville, police said.
A passerby was shot as he tried to intervene and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to a police report.
Tordil, an officer with the Federal Protective Service since 1997, was stripped of his service gun and badge and placed on administrative duty after a judge granted the protective order.
Authorities said they also confiscated a stockpile of personal weapons at the time.
According to the court documents, Tordil had access to at least three revolvers, which the court ordered him to carry only during work.
Gladys Tordil was a chemistry teacher at Parkdale High School, Prince George’s County Public Schools said.
At Saturday’s news conference, Hamill said Tordil spoke to investigators a little about the shootings.
On Friday afternoon, plainclothes officers spotted his vehicle at a strip mall across the street from the Giant supermarket.
He was detained near the mall where Friday’s final killing took place – that of a woman outside a grocery store.
Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said officers kept their distance, hoping to avoid a gunfight. Police kept a vigilant and cautious eye on Tordil for the next hour as he lunched at the Boston Market and wandered from one business to another. “But my detectives as well as our scientific experts here in the police department believe that is a very strong, real possibility”, Hamill said. Police said they have no reason to believe anyone at the mall was in danger.
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About 30 minutes after this incident, another shooting occurred outside a supermarket in Aspen Hill leaving one woman dead. “They ran into harm’s way to protect someone they did not know”.
