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By Ian Simpson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police on Friday captured a government officer suspected in a two-day shooting frenzy in the Washington rural areas that killed his better half and two obvious outsiders and restored recollections of the "Freeway expert rifleman" assaults of 2002.
Three others were injured in the three separate assaults. Eulalio Sevilla Tordil, 62, a cop with the U.S. Branch of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service, was captured in a donut shop close to the site of the second of Friday's two shootings, police said. He had been associated with killing his significant other and shooting an onlooker on Thursday in Prince George's County, Maryland.
At the point when two more shootings softened out up neighboring Montgomery County on Friday, agents turned their regard for Tordil, who had debilitated to confer "suicide by cop," police said. A casually dressed officer seen Tordil in a Dunkin' Donuts. Police held him under look as he strolled all through stores, however held up until he came back to his auto before capturing him, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger told a news gathering.
"We would not like to have a shootout when he was taken into authority," Manger said. Encompassed by officers with their weapons drawn, Tordil surrendered without a quarrel after over five minutes, police said. Charges ought to be recorded on Friday and Tordil will show up on Monday, Montgomery County prosecutor John McCarthy said.
The first of Friday's episodes started with a showdown in a parking area at Westfield Montgomery Mall in prosperous Bethesda, Maryland, where two men and a lady were shot, police said.
One of the men kicked the bucket, the other was in basic condition, and the lady's life was not considered in risk, police said. The second shooting occurred about 30 minutes after the fact, killing a lady at the Aspen Hill Shopping Center in Silver Spring, somewhere in the range of 8 miles (13 km) away.
The casualty of Thursday's shooting was Tordil's irritated spouse, Gladys, a secondary school science instructor who was shot as she went to get their two little girls from another school. Tordil was on leave, having surrendered his firearm and identification after his significant other acquired a defensive request to keep him away, an authority with the Federal Protective Service said.
The three-week Beltway rifleman trial in 2002 shook Washington and its rural areas until John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time, were caught. Malvo was sentenced to life and Muhammad, a Gulf War veteran, was executed in 2009.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson, Suzannah Gonzales, Barbara Goldberg, Joseph Ax and Gina Cherelus; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Bill Trott and James Dalgleish)
By Ian Simpson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police on Friday captured a government officer suspected in a two-day shooting frenzy in the Washington rural areas that killed his better half and two obvious outsiders and restored recollections of the "Freeway expert rifleman" assaults of 2002.
Three others were injured in the three separate assaults. Eulalio Sevilla Tordil, 62, a cop with the U.S. Branch of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service, was captured in a donut shop close to the site of the second of Friday's two shootings, police said. He had been associated with killing his significant other and shooting an onlooker on Thursday in Prince George's County, Maryland.
At the point when two more shootings softened out up neighboring Montgomery County on Friday, agents turned their regard for Tordil, who had debilitated to confer "suicide by cop," police said. A casually dressed officer seen Tordil in a Dunkin' Donuts. Police held him under look as he strolled all through stores, however held up until he came back to his auto before capturing him, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger told a news gathering.
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The first of Friday's episodes started with a showdown in a parking area at Westfield Montgomery Mall in prosperous Bethesda, Maryland, where two men and a lady were shot, police said.
One of the men kicked the bucket, the other was in basic condition, and the lady's life was not considered in risk, police said. The second shooting occurred about 30 minutes after the fact, killing a lady at the Aspen Hill Shopping Center in Silver Spring, somewhere in the range of 8 miles (13 km) away.
The casualty of Thursday's shooting was Tordil's irritated spouse, Gladys, a secondary school science instructor who was shot as she went to get their two little girls from another school. Tordil was on leave, having surrendered his firearm and identification after his significant other acquired a defensive request to keep him away, an authority with the Federal Protective Service said.
The three-week Beltway rifleman trial in 2002 shook Washington and its rural areas until John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time, were caught. Malvo was sentenced to life and Muhammad, a Gulf War veteran, was executed in 2009.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson, Suzannah Gonzales, Barbara Goldberg, Joseph Ax and Gina Cherelus; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Bill Trott and James Dalgleish)
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