Man accused of killing 3 in Maryland expected in court

Suspect lost eyeglasses and was unable to flee after shooting, prosecutors say

A Maryland man accused of killing three people in a shooting rampage lost his eyeglasses during a scuffle with his final victim as he tried to carjack her SUV, prosecutors said Monday, an occurrence that helped contribute to his capture.

Without his glasses, Eulalio Tordil, 62, couldn’t see well enough to drive any distance, prosecutors said, and parked in a lot near his alleged final attack where a patrol officer noticed his license plate from a lookout report and alerted a law enforcement team that swarmed and arrested Tordil.

On Monday, a Montgomery County Court judge ordered Tordil, of Adelphi, held without bond until his preliminary hearing June 3. Tordil, an officer with the Federal Protective Service since 1997, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder and multiple firearm charges in connection with Friday’s shootings in Montgomery. The attacks began Thursday in Prince George’s County where Tordil is accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife as she waited to pick up her daughters outside a Beltsville high school. They ended Friday in Montgomery in what authorities said were attempted carjackings at a mall and outside a supermarket in the course of the manhunt.

The rampage left three people dead and three wounded, some of them bystanders who tried to come to the aid of those Tordil is accused of shooting.

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