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Policeman charged in fatal Maryland shootings | |
(about 13 hours later) | |
A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead his wife and two other people in Maryland, and injuring three others. | |
Eulalio Tordil, 62, is suspected of killing his estranged wife Gladys outside a high school on Thursday. | |
The next day, one person was killed and two more injured after being shot near a shopping mall in Bethesda. | |
In a second incident on Friday, a woman was shot and killed eight miles (13 km) away shortly afterwards. | |
Mr Tordil is a police officer with the Federal Protection Services, which provides security to US government buildings. | |
He was arrested by tactical officers "without incident" near to where Friday's second shooting took place. | |
Police believe he killed his estranged wife outside the High Point High School in Maryland on Thursday as she was picking up her children. | |
A man who went to her aid was also shot and injured. | |
Mr Tordil was charged with first-degree murder for his wife's killing and assault for the shooting of the bystander at the school. | |
The Federal Protective Service says that Mr Tordil was placed on administrative leave in March after a protective order was issued against him. | The Federal Protective Service says that Mr Tordil was placed on administrative leave in March after a protective order was issued against him. |
On Friday, gunfire erupted at the Westfield Mall in Bethesda then the second shooting happened at a supermarket in nearby Aspen Hill. | On Friday, gunfire erupted at the Westfield Mall in Bethesda then the second shooting happened at a supermarket in nearby Aspen Hill. |