Suspected of killing 3 at mall, grocery store, high school.
Shootings on Friday at two Maryland shopping centers eight miles apart killed two people and injured two others, although it was unknown if the incidents were related, police said.
Police were also looking into whether Friday’s incidents could be tied to another shooting a day earlier, in Beltsville, about 10 miles east of Silver Spring.
Eulalio Tordil, 62, identified as a person of interest in the shootings, was arrested Friday afternoon. He is accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife and injuring a bystander in a high school parking lot, authorities said.
Tordil is a police officer with the Federal Protective Service, a U.S. Department Homeland Security agency responsible for security at federal buildings and some foreign embassies in the Washington area.
He was put on administrative duties in March after a protective order was issued against him, Homeland officials told NBC News. He was later placed on administrative leave, required to surrender his government-issued weapons, badge, and credentials.
He had threatened to commit “suicide by cop,” police said.
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