US Officer Arrested After Killing Wife
MEP: Police have arrested a US federal law enforcement officer suspected in a two-day shooting rampage in Washington DC that killed his wife and two apparent strangers in Maryland.
Eulalio Sevilla Tordil, 62, a police officer with the US Department of Homeland Security, was arrested near the shopping centre where the second of Friday’s two shootings took place, police said.
At least three others were also wounded in the three separate attacks.
Tordil’s estranged wife, Gladys, a high school chemistry teacher, was shot on Thursday as she went to pick up their two daughters from another school.
The first of Friday’s incidents began with a confrontation in a parking lot at Westfield Montgomery Mall in affluent Bethesda, Maryland, where two men and a woman were shot, police said.
Tordil is an employee of the Federal Protective Service, which protects federal facilities and is part of Homeland Security.
Tordil was suspended from his federal job, having surrendered his gun and badge after his wife obtained a protective order to keep him away, an official with the Federal Protective Service said.
