A suspected gunman is in custody after two people were killed in separate shootings at a mall and grocery store in Montgomery County, Maryland, today, and police say the shootings may be linked to a deadly domestic shooting in the area yesterday. 
 
 The suspect, Eulalio Tordil, 62, was taken into custody today in the Aspen Hill, Maryland, area, police said. No one was injured during the arrest. 
 
 Montgomery County police said they have reason to believe today's two deadly shootings -- at the Westfield Montgomery Mall and a Giant grocery store nearby -- were related to a fatal shooting at a high school in the area yesterday, adding "that will obviously [need to be] further vetted." 
 
 The suspect was apprehended after he was seen eating at a Boston Market, police said. 
 
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 Three people were shot at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda earlier today. One of the victims has died; another is in critical condition and the third suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said. 
 
 A woman was also killed today in a shooting at a Giant grocery store in the Aspen Hill area, about 8 miles away from the mall. 
 
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 The Prince George's County Police Department said earlier today it was "looking into the possibility" that Tordil, accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife Thursday in the parking lot of High Point High School in Beltsville in Prince George's County, was also the shooter in Montgomery County this morning. Montgomery County police also said earlier they were "investigating a possible link" between Tordil and the two shootings today. 
 
 We're looking into the possibility Eulalio Tordil, High Point HS gunman, is also the shooter in Montgomery Co. pic.twitter.com/4rQW9IJ54f — PGPDNEWS (@PGPDNews) May 6, 2016 
 
 Prince George's County police said Tordil, a Federal Protective Service employee, followed his estranged wife, Gladys Tordil, to the high school Thursday afternoon when she went to pick up her children. Police said Tordil fatally shot his estranged wife and shot and injured a good Samaritan who came to her aid. 
 
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 Tordil's wife has alleged that Tordil subjected their family to abuse, according to a protective order issued by a Maryland judge against Tordil. 
 
 The order was issued on March 17, 2016, and was to remain in place for one year. The judge specifically ordered Tordil to stay away from High Point High School, where Gladys Tordil was murdered. 
 
 According to the document, Gladys Tordil alleged that Tordil exposed minor children to “pornographic materials,” touched at least one of them inappropriately and subjected them to “intense-military-like discipline – pushups, detention in dark closet.” 
 
 Gladys Tordil said in 2010 that her husband “slapped me so hard during our altercation, my glasses broke on my face," the document states. 
 
 On Tordil's wanted poster from Thursday, authorities noted, “The suspect has made threats to commit suicide by cop.” 
 
 FPS said Tordil was placed on administrative duties in March after a protective order was issued against him. His duty weapon, badge and credentials were removed. He was subsequently placed on administrative leave, FPS said. 
 
 ABC News' Jack Date and Geneva Sands contributed to this report. ||||| Montgomery County Assistant Russ Hamill described the attempted carjackings at Md. shopping centers on May 6, and detailed how two of the victims "selflessly and heroically" saved a woman. She and one man were injured, while the other died. Suspect Eulalio Tordil is in custody. (WUSA9) 
 
 Montgomery County Assistant Russ Hamill described the attempted carjackings at Md. shopping centers on May 6, and detailed how two of the victims "selflessly and heroically" saved a woman. She and one man were injured, while the other died. Suspect Eulalio Tordil is in custody. (WUSA9) 
 
 A frantic 22 hours of mayhem at a school, a mall and a grocery store jolted two counties as it left three dead and three wounded before a suspect was captured Friday afternoon in a Maryland parking lot near the scene of the final killing. 
 
 The arrest of Eulalio “Leo” Tordil, a 62-year-old federal law enforcement officer, followed a manhunt that forced Montgomery County schools, government buildings and retail establishments to lock down. Just before 3 p.m., police cruisers rammed Tordil’s silver Hyundai Elantra as it sat parked outside a strip mall. Officers drew their guns and shouted for him to surrender — just one day after he had allegedly gunned down his wife within view of her daughter. 
 
 Although authorities said he had planned to die in a “suicide by cop,” Tordil soon emerged from the car with his hands up. 
 
 “He gave up peacefully,” said Theresa Doyle, 55, who witnessed the arrest from her car near a Dunkin’ Donuts. “I am still shaking. This could have been so much worse.” 
 
 The sporadic shootings sparked a deep sense of foreboding that echoed what the same neighborhood suffered through during the Beltway sniper rampage that took 10 lives in 2002. 
 
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 “It was an irony that was not lost on me,” Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said. 
 
 The snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, had even eaten lunch at the same Boston Market where a witness was told by employees that Tordil quietly ate his lunch — a salad and a glass of water — near a window facing his car. 
 
 Prince George’s County ­officials charged Tordil with first-degree murder and related ­charges in his wife’s killing and other counts in the shooting at the school. Other than his wife, none of the victims has yet been publicly identified. In a statement late Friday, Montgomery police said Tordil was “currently being interviewed by detectives,” and they indicated that he had not been charged in that jurisdiction. ­ 
 
 The killing began Thursday afternoon, investigators say, when Tordil approached his estranged wife, Gladys Tordil, as she waited in a parking lot at High Point High School in Beltsville to pick up her two daughters. 
 
 When a man tried to intervene, authorities said, Tordil shot him in the shoulder. They say Tordil then pointed his weapon at his wife’s SUV, firing repeatedly until she died. 
 
 At that moment, her 16-year-old daughter was walking out of a nearby band room. Hearing the shots, another student pulled her back inside and ran to alert others. 
 
 “That’s when the whole school panicked,” said 17-year-old Chris Mejia, High Point’s senior class president. 
 
 
 
 
 
 In March, at the behest of his wife, a civil court issued a protective order against Tordil for alleged abuse, according to court documents. In the filing, she claimed that her husband, a black belt in the martial-art form of aikido, subjected her children to “intense-military-like discipline” and that he struck her in 2010. 
 
 “He threatened to harm me,” she said, “if I leave him.” 
 
 As a result of the order, his employer, the Federal Protective Service, put him on administrative duties and stripped him of his gun and badge. Authorities say they also confiscated a stockpile of his personal weapons. His wife indicated in the protective order that he owned .40-caliber and .45-caliber handguns, an M4 military carbine, a revolver and a “hunting gun.” 
 
 Under “favorite quotes” on Tordil’s Facebook page, it lists a single misspelled line: “You can ran, but you can’t hide.” 
 
 Authorities tried to begin tracking Tordil immediately after the shooting at High Point. 
 
 They had little to work with and were contending with a suspect whose career in law enforcement made him even harder to pursue, said Prince George’s County Police Chief Henry P. Stawinski III. 
 
 Tordil had turned off his phone 20 minutes before the first shooting and never turned it back on. Video of the shooting was grainy and showed only a silver sedan, but police quickly learned that he had leased the Elantra and knew the Pennsylvania license plate number. 
 
 That provided them the only firm nugget of information to track their suspect. 
 
 Police didn’t release details about the car to the public Thursday night, fearing Tordil might catch on and abandon it, Stawin­ski said. But they did inform other law enforcement officers. 
 
 “He is a police officer, and he would be doing countersurveillance on us and watching the media,” the chief said. “If he knew we knew that was his car, he would get rid of the car.” 
 
 More than 100 undercover officers, homicide detectives and special patrol teams from Prince George’s alone fanned throughout the region. The car’s license tag was spotted around midnight, but Tordil eluded authorities throughout the night. 
 
 The violence on Friday began about 11:15 a.m., police said, when Tordil fatally shot one man and wounded another man and a woman in the parking lot of Westfield Montgomery Mall. Police said they think that Tordil shot two of the three as they rushed to help the first victim. As of late Friday night, they said the wounded man was in critical condition and the woman in stable condition with non-life-threatining injuries. 
 
 Jose Mauricio Gomez, 54, was eating lunch in his pickup when he heard six to eight shots. When a police officer pulled up next to him, Gomez realized that the crime scene was nearby. 
 
 Neither man spotted the shooter, but they did see one victim, a woman with a shoulder wound. 
 
 The officer asked the woman, who appeared to be in her 30s, whether she could stand. 
 
 “That’s when blood shot out of the hole in her shoulder and he sat her back down,” Gomez said. 
 
 The only thing she talked about, he recalled, was how upset her husband was going to be. 
 
 While at that scene, officers received a 911 call from the Giant grocery store in Aspen Hill, nine miles away, where a woman had been shot to death in her car. 
 
 Soon after, a plainclothes officer spotted Tordil’s car parked across the street from the grocery store, according to McCarthy. Investigators soon realized Tordil was still nearby after showing wanted fliers at area businesses. 
 
 Tordil, McCarthy said, first got a cup of coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts, then went to Michaels craft store to “browse around” before heading to Boston Market, where he quietly ate lunch near a window. 
 
 As many as 100 officers kept up surveillance but resisted closing in to avoid a bloody firefight in a bustling shopping area. 
 
 “We needed to make sure the public was safe when we took him into custody,” said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger. “Our fear was he was armed, since he already shot four people today.” 
 
 When Tordil returned to his car, officers swarmed. 
 
 He was soon led away in handcuffs, with either rain or sweat soaked through his jeans and light-brown polo. 
 
 “The judgments made today by police saved a lot of lives,” McCarthy said. “This went down exactly as planned.” 
 
 Authorities have no evidence that Tordil knew the people he has been accused of attacking on Friday, leaving investigators to sort through his motivation. 
 
 It also remains unclear what led him to allegedly kill his wife, a mother of two teen girls who supported her children and family members in the Philippines. 
 
 Gladys Tordil, who taught chemistry at Parkdale High, should have been honored this week — both for National Teacher Appreciation Week and Mother’s Day — and not killed in front of her daughter, said Mejia, the student body president. 
 
 “My niece had her as a teacher last year. She said she was a great person,” he said. “She was always happy, always singing, always dancing.” 
 
 On the door of her classroom, more than 100 hand-scrawled sticky notes captured what she had meant to those left behind, a mosaic of memories on squares of pink, blue, green and yellow. 
 
 Read one: “To the reason I’m pursuing Chemistry.” Another: “Thank you Mrs. Tordil! Rest in Peace!” And another: “We will forever love you.” 
 
 Ann E. Marimow, Donna St. George, Peter Hermann, Arelis R. Hernández, Justin Wm. Moyer, Martin Weil, Michael E. Ruane, Keith L. Alexander, Dan Morse, Victoria St. Martin, Moriah Balingit, Dana Hedgpeth and Hamil R. Harris contributed to this report. ||||| - A man wanted in connection to two deadly shootings in Montgomery County on Friday in addition to the shooting death of his estranged wife outside a Prince George's County high school on Thursday night was arrested. Officers surrounded a silver Hyundai Elantra in the parking lot of an Aspen Hill Kohl's store, and the suspect, 62-year-old Eulalio Tordil was inside. 
 
 FOX 5's Alexandra Limon was live on the air when police began rushing across the street from the parking lot of a Giant food store, where one of two shootings took place on Friday morning. Limon's crew was quickly moved away, but moments later, things settled-- and Tordil was in custody. (WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE) 
 
 Shortly thereafter, Montgomery County Police confirmed that a suspect was indeed in custody, and it was Tordil. He was arrested in the parking lot of the same shopping center where the D.C. Beltway sniper attacks began. The first shot was fired to the Michaels craft store, which is still there, on October 2, 2002. Investigators said Tordil ate at the same restaurant, a Boston Market, where John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo ate. 
 
 Earlier Friday, two people were killed in two separate shootings in Montgomery County. The first happened outside Montgomery Mall, and the second outside the Aspen Hill Giant grocery store. 
 
 MONTGOMERY MALL SHOOTING 
 
 On Friday morning at around 11:13 am, an off-duty officer called dispatch and other officers that shots were fired during a confrontation outside of Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, and two men and a woman were wounded. One of the men died, and the second man is in critical condition at Suburban Hospital. The female victim is also at the hospital in stable condition with non-life threatening injuries. 
 
 Police said they believed two of the people who were shot at that scene were hit when they came to the aid of the first victim. 
 
 Westfield Montgomery released the following statement regarding the shootings after Tordil was arrested: 
 
 "There was a shooting this morning in the parking lot of Westfield Montgomery and the suspect immediately fled the scene. We worked closely with Montgomery County PD on site and the center remained open serving as shelter for those who wished to remain inside. We are grateful to local law enforcement for their efforts to secure the site and insure the safety of the community. 
 
 All of us in this community are shocked and saddened by these events. We send our heartfelt condolences to the victims of this tragedy and their families. 
 
 We encourage you to follow official updates on Montgomery County Police Department." 
 
 ASPEN HILL SHOOTING 
 
 At around 11:50 p.m., a second shooting was reported outside a Giant grocery store in Aspen Hill located on Connecticut Avenue. Montgomery County police confirmed that one woman was shot in her car, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. 
 
 SUSPECT ARRESTED 
 
 Before Tordil's arrest, Montgomery County police confirmed they were looking into the possibility that Friday's shootings were connected to another deadly shooting that took place on Thursday afternoon outside a High Point High School in Beltsville, Md. Detectives say Tordil shot and killed his estranged wife outside the school in what investigators called a domestic-related shooting. Another man was also shot as he tried to intervene and help the victim. 
 
 On Thursday night, police issued an alert for Tordil, who was said to be driving a silver 2015 Hyundai Elantra with Pennsylvania license plate JZA0123. Tordil is an employee of the Federal Protection Service, and police warned that he may have been wearing body armor and may be heavily armed. 
 
 Also before the arrest, sources told FOX 5's Marina Marraco that Friday's shootings were connected to Thursday night's shooting, but Montgomery County Police Captain Paul Starks said he could not confirm a connection, and they were continuing to look into the possibility of a connection. 
 
 In a press conference late Friday afternoon with officials from both counties, authorities said Tordil was the alleged gunman in all three shootings. Police said officers responding to the Giant parking lot shooting located the vehicle that matched the description parked in the Northgate Shopping Center. 
 
 Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger said plainclothes officers had Tordil under surveillance in the area and they were extremely careful to make sure they kept the public safe. Authorities said he had earlier threatened to "commit suicide by cop." 
 
 "We had him under surveillance and he was walking from store to store and at no point was it safe to take him into custody until we did," said Manger. 
 
 After he came out of the Dunkin' Donuts, police cornered Tordil at his car. 
 
 "They came in from all directions," said one witness. "They boxed him in, they rammed the car from the front and the back, pulled guns on him and told him to get out of the vehicle." 
 
 Without a single gunshot from both police and the suspect, Tordil exited his car and surrendered peacefully. 
 
 CHARGES 
 
 On Friday night, Prince George's County police officially charged Tordil with first-degree murder and related charges for the fatal shooting of his wife. He was also charged with assault for shooting a bystander who attempted to intervene in the confrontation between the couple. 
 
 Charges are pending against Tordil in connection to the shootings in Montgomery County. He was in custody Friday night at Montgomery County police headquarters being interviewed. He will be arraigned in District Court Monday afternoon. 
 
 SCHOOLS ON ALERT 
 
 A shelter-in-place order was issued for all Montgomery County schools out of what Starks called an abundance of caution, but just before 2:30 pm, that order was lifted at all but five schools. Following Tordil's arrest, all shelter-in-place orders were lifted. 
 
 Stay with FOX 5 and fox5dc.com for updates. ||||| (CNN) A federal law enforcement officer sought in the fatal shootings of his estranged wife at a school, a man at a mall parking lot and a woman outside a grocery store has been arrested, police in Maryland said Friday. 
 
 Eulalio Tordil, 62, was taken into custody without incident after police spotted him inside a business close to the grocery store, Montgomery County police Chief J. Thomas Manger said. 
 
 Police waited about an hour to make the arrest, fearing Tordil was armed, and closed in when he got into his vehicle, Manger said. A weapon was found in the vehicle, he said. 
 
 Tordil is an employee of the Federal Protective Service , which protects federal facilities and is part of Homeland Security. 
 
 He was placed on administrative duties in March after a protective order was issued against him, the FPS said. 
 
 Estranged wife obtained protective order 
 
 In March 2016, a Prince George's County district judge ordered that Tordil have no contact with his estranged wife, Gladys Tordil, and two minors thought to be their children. 
 
 According to the court documents, Tordil had access to at least three revolvers, which the court ordered him to carry only during work. He had to leave them at his workplace. The FPS said it went one step further after the protective order, removing Tordil's duty weapon, badge and credentials. 
 
 Gladys Tordil alleged that Eulalio "has been subjecting them to intense military-like discipline -- push ups, detention in dark closet," according to the order. She said, "He threatened to harm me if I leave him," the documents say. 
 
 Prince George's County police charged Eulalio Tordil on Friday with first-degree murder in the shooting of his wife, the department said in a news release posted on its website. He was charged with assault for allegedly shooting a man who tried to intervene. 
 
 Montgomery County police have not announced any charges. 
 
 Shootings UPDATE: Suspect IN CUSTODY in Aspen Hill area: Eulalio Tordil, 62. Press Conference to be held. Time: TBD pic.twitter.com/cHQJRPa9uP — Montgomery Co Police (@mcpnews) May 6, 2016 
 
 First shooting at high school 
 
 All the shootings happened in parking lots. Besides those killed, three people were wounded. Police said they don't know whether Tordil had a relationship with any of the other people who were shot other than Gladys Tordil. 
 
 Law enforcement authorities had been looking for Tordil since Thursday, when Gladys Tordil, 44, was killed outside High Point High School in Beltsville in adjacent Prince George's County, police said. The school was one of the places Tordil was ordered to stay away from in the court order. 
 
 It appeared Tordil followed her to the school property as she came to pick up her children and confronted her as she sat in her car, police said. 
 
 A passerby was shot as he tried to intervene and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to a police report. After the wife was shot multiple times, the gunman left the scene, police said. 
 
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 Around 11 a.m. Friday morning, one man was fatally shot outside Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda, according to police. A man and woman were wounded, police said. The man is in critical condition and the woman in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. 
 
 While officers were investigating that shooting, they received a call at 11:50 a.m. about a shooting in the Giant supermarket parking lot in Aspen Hill, Manger said. Officers found a woman fatally shot inside her vehicle. 
 
 Officers searching for the suspect found his vehicle in a nearby shopping center parking lot, then spotted him inside businesses, he said. 
 
 Manger said police decided not to confront Tordil right away because they thought he was armed. The suspect spent about an hour in various businesses and ate lunch at a Boston Market, the chief said. 
 
 "He was walking from store to store and at no point was it safe for us to take him into custody until we did," Manger said. "We needed to make sure the public was safe when we took him into custody." 
 
 When the suspect got in his car, police blocked the vehicle and made the arrest, the official said. 
 
 Tordil is expected in court at 1 p.m. Monday in Rockville District Court, police said. 
 
 Remembering the D.C. snipers 
 
 The area where Tordil was arrested had significance for residents of the District of Columbia. 
 
 The D.C.-area snipers , who killed 10 people in 2002, passed through the area, Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy said. 
 
 "They ate in the same restaurant where we were having the surveillance today, which was an irony that was not lost on me," he said. 
 
 During three weeks in October 2002 , John Allen Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, killed 10 people and wounded three, while taunting police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands. 
 
 Muhammed was executed in 2009. Malvo is serving a life sentence. 
 
 "Today's incident was very reminiscent of fear that permeated throughout our communities during the 2002 sniper shootings," Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III said in a statement on the county government website. "It was also another harsh reality of the terror that gun violence can create." ||||| Montgomery County, Md. Police Capt. Paul Starks speaks to the media in the parking lot outside the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Md., Friday, May 6, 2016. A woman was killed and three people... (Associated Press) 
 
 SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The shooting spree began with a domestic slaying in an unusually public place. According to police, Eulalio Tordil, a federal security officer, shot and killed his estranged wife as she waited to pick up her children in the parking lot of a suburban Washington high school on Thursday afternoon. He also shot and wounded a bystander who tried to intervene, police said. 
 
 Detectives worked through the night, trying to use cellphone technology to pinpoint Tordil's location. But they weren't able to catch him. The next day, according to police, he struck again, this time apparently choosing his victims at random. 
 
 On Friday morning, police said, Tordil shot three people outside an upscale mall in Bethesda, 15 miles away from the high school. One man died and two others were wounded, one of them critically. Then, he drove to a supermarket five miles away in Silver Spring, where he fatally shot a woman who was sitting in her car, police said. 
 
 The attacks were reminiscent of the D.C. sniper shootings, which paralyzed the nation's capital and its suburbs in 2002. In an eerie coincidence, the supermarket slaying occurred just a few hundred feet from where the snipers fired their first shots. 
 
 Unlike with the snipers, however, police had an idea about who was responsible. Plainclothes officers spotted Tordil's car at a strip mall across the street from the supermarket, and they watched him for more than an hour as he moved from store to store, eating at Boston Market and getting coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, police said. Fearing that he wanted to provoke officers into shooting him, police waited him out until he returned to his car. Then they boxed him in and drew their guns. He emerged from the car with his hands up. 
 
 "We did not want to endanger anyone and have a shootout when we took him into custody," Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said. "That may have been what he wanted." 
 
 Instead, Tordil will have to answer in court for the string of carnage attributed to him: three people dead and another three wounded in roughly 20 hours. He was charged Friday evening with murder in the death of his wife, Gladys, a high school chemistry teacher. Charges are pending in the other shootings, and he'll likely face his first court appearance Monday. 
 
 Hank Stawinski, the police chief in neighboring Prince George's County, where the school shooting took place, lamented that his detectives couldn't find Tordil sooner. 
 
 "It's tragic that we were not able to intervene prior to additional individuals being harmed," Stawinski said. 
 
 Tordil worked for the Federal Protective Service, which provides security at federal properties. He was put on administrative duties in March after a protective order was issued against him when his wife said he had threatened to harm her if she left him, The Washington Post reported (http://wapo.st/1WOrwyg). Tordil subjected their children to "intense-military-like discipline," like pushups and detention in a dark closet, according to the order. 
 
 The protective service said Tordil's weapon, badge and credentials were taken when he was placed on leave. Police found a weapon in his car but did not describe it. 
 
 The arrest occurred in full view of dozens of witnesses who were working, shopping, eating lunch or getting their nails done. 
 
 "They had a bunch of guns pointed at him, and he was coming out of the car with his hands up," said Dominique Lee, who was walking out of the flower shop where she works when Tordil was arrested. 
 
 "He just got out of his car. He gave up," said Jason Palmer, a private investigator who lives nearby and had started to search for the gunman himself. "They pinned him in." 
 
 The arrest took place just steps away from a Michaels craft store that was the first target of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad's shot into the store did not hit anyone, but he killed a man about a mile away less than an hour later, kicking off a three-week killing spree that left 10 dead. 
 
 Tordil ate at the same Boston Market as Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who was also convicted in the sniper attacks. 
 
 "They ate in the same restaurant where we were having the surveillance here today, which was an irony that was not lost on me," said Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy, who prosecuted Muhammad. "I think it's a coincidence." 
 
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 Associated Press contributors include Jessica Gresko, Sarah Brumfield and Alex Brandon. 
 
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– Two people are dead following shootings at a shopping mall and grocery store Friday in Maryland, and police have a possible suspect in custody. The first shooting took place around 11am outside the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, with two men and one woman hit, Fox 5 DC reports. Two of the victims were reportedly shot when attempting to help the first victim, and all three were hospitalized. According to ABC News, one of the men has died and another victim is in critical condition. Police say there is no indication the shooter knew the victims, the AP reports. The second shooting took place at a grocery store about eight miles from the mall and left a woman dead, the Washington Post reports. It's unclear if the two shootings are related. Police say Eulalio Tordil, wanted on suspicion of shooting and killing his estranged wife outside a Maryland high school on Thursday, may be responsible for one or both of Friday's shootings. He was arrested Friday afternoon, according to NBC News. Tordil allegedly followed his wife to the school, where she was picking up her children, and shot her. Police say he also shot and injured a person attempting to help his wife. CNN reports the 62-year-old Tordil is a law enforcement officer with the Federal Protective Service who was put on administrative leave in March after a protective order was issued against him.