The Latest: Suspect charged with murder in wife's shooting
Prince George's County Police have charged the federal security officer suspected in three fatal shootings in one of the crimes.
The department said in an email Friday evening that Eulalio Tordil has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife, 44-year-old Gladys Tordil.
Police say plainclothes officers trailed the suspect in three fatal shootings in the Washington area for an hour after finding him in a shopping center, waiting for the right time to arrest him.
Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said at a news conference Friday that officers spotted a car linked to a fatal shooting at a high school the night before, then spotted Eulalio Tordil.
The suspect in three fatal shootings in the Washington area once had to repay the federal government nearly $16,000 after misusing a housing program.
A report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General in 2008 says Eulalio Tordil obtained HUD-owned property under a program designed to help law enforcement officers.
Authorities say the federal security officer suspected in three fatal shootings in the Washington, D.C. area had threatened to "commit suicide by cop."
Documents show the woman police say was killed by her estranged husband outside a Maryland high school had previously told authorities he threatened to harm her if she left him.
According to a protective order obtained by The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/1WOrwyg), Gladys Tordil said Eulalio Tordil once slapped her so hard that her glasses broke on her face.
Police say a two people are dead and two others are wounded after two shootings at a mall and a shopping center in the Washington suburbs.
Police in Maryland say a woman is dead and three people are injured in shootings at a mall and a shopping center in the Washington suburbs.