Three shooting incidents unfolded on Thursday and Friday in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties in what law enforcement officials said was a chaotic manner.
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On Friday afternoon, police arrested Eulalio Tordil, 62, recently placed on administrative leave from the Federal Protective Service. Three people were fatally shot, including Tordil’s wife.
Police believe he was involved in all three incidents. Here is a timeline:
About 4:40 p.m. Thursday: Police said Tordil fatally shot his estranged wife, Gladys Tordil, outside High Point High School in Beltsville as she was picking up her children. He also allegedly shot a bystander who had come to her aid. He then fled.
11 a.m. Friday: Police received a report of three people being shot — two men and a woman — at Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda. One of the men later died, and the other man was in critical condition. The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
11:50 a.m. Friday: Police received a report of a shooting at the Aspen Hill Giant supermarket, in the 13000 block of Connecticut Avenue. The woman who was shot later died.
About noon Friday: Schools, recreation centers, Suburban Hospital and some spaces leased by the National Institutes of Health went into lockdown or shelter-in-place status as police sought the attacker.
2 p.m. Friday: Police said Tordil was linked to the Thursday shooting at High Point High School and to the two shootings Friday in Montgomery County.
3 p.m. Friday: Police took Tordil into custody at a shopping center along Aspen Hill Road, near where he had allegedly shot the woman in a parking lot of the Giant grocery store.