Eulalio Tordil, a Homeland Security officer, traveled across the Washington metropolitan area, where he shot and killed three people and wounded three others in the span of 24 hours between May 5 and 6, 2016.
Tordil confronted her and injured a male (John Lancaster) who tried to intervene, before fatally shooting her a total of six times in her SUV.
[7] On May 6, Tordil drove to a Macy's store in the Westfield Montgomery Mall and opened fire, killing one man and injuring two others while attempting to car-jack a vehicle to evade police detection.
Tordil soon fled to a nearby Giant Supermarket in Aspen Hill, where he shot and killed a woman sitting in her car while he attempted to steal it.
It was the same Boston Market where John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo ate lunch during their spree.
Per the order, Tordil verbally, sexually, and physically abused his family and showed the two children pornographic images and subjected them to "intense-military-like discipline", and would put them in "detention" by locking them in dark closets.
[16] The charges relating to the murder of his estranged wife and the wounding of John Lancaster were based through the Prince George's County court system.
[14] A memorial service was held for Gladys Tordil at Parkdale High School in Riverdale, Maryland on May 16, where she was an AP Chemistry teacher.
[18] A local prosecutor pledged to help the daughters of Gladys Tordil, who were 16 and 17; their closest relative was in the Philippines at the time of the murder, causing them to be placed in foster care.