UPDATED: May 6, 2015, 3:10 PM ET
Two victims are dead and two more injured after Friday morning shootings at two shopping malls in suburban Washington D.C.
Police said in an afternoon news conference that a person of interest, Eulalio Tordil, 62, was taken into custody before 3 p.m. ET. He is suspected of killing his estranged wife while she picked up her children from school on Thursday.
The first shooting was reported at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Maryland around 11:30 a.m. Responding officers found three victims, two men and one woman, wounded in the mall parking lot, Montgomery County Police Assistant Chief Darryl McSwain said in a media briefing.
In a second briefing, Montgomery police Capt. Paul Starks said the woman was shot after the suspect approached her car and asked her questions. Two men who came to her aid were also shot and one later died at the hospital, he said.
The woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries and the other man remains in critical condition, according to police.
A second shooting was reported at about 11:50 a.m. at a Giant grocery store on the 13700 block of Connecticut Avenue, in the Aspen Hill area. The woman injured in the shooting has died, Starks said.
Police said Tordil followed his wife to a Beltsville, Maryland high school on Thursday, where she was picking up her children, and fatally shot her. A bystander who tried to intervene in the confrontation was also wounded but is in stable condition, WJLA reported.
This post will be updated as new details are available.
If “news” is something unexpected, then, sadly, a random shooting at a public venue is no longer news.
Nothing to see here. I am sure this was just an isolated incident by some guy who happened upon a firearm since guns do not exactly grow on trees.
(Edit)“We have no reason to believe at this point that the victims knew the suspect…”
Great. So now only everyone other than people this guy knows are potential future victims as long as he remains at large.
Exactly.
Shootings are more like tornadoes, you don’t know exactly where and when they are going to happen but you know they are going to continue to occur.
It should be News, Weather, Sports and Shootings.
That’s dark.