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A man who went on a deadly shooting spree in Maryland last May was sentenced to two life sentences on Wednesday for the murder of his estranged wife and attempted murder of another person outside of a high school in Prince George’s County.
Before sentencing Eulalio Tordil, PG County judge Leo Green Jr. told him “You should not see or breathe a free bit of air for the rest of your life,” according to The Washington Post.
Tordil, a former federal protective officer, pleaded guilty in June to fatally shooting Gladys Tordil in the parking lot of High Point High School on May 5, 2016—the first day of his two-day rampage. A bystander attempted to intervene after Eulalio confronted Gladys, while she sat in her car. Tordil shot the man, who suffered non-life threatening injuries, before turning the gun on his wife and shooting her multiple times.
Today’s sentencing adds to four consecutive life sentences that Tordil received in a Montgomery County court in July for fatally shooting two strangers during apparent car jacking attempts and wounding two others on May 6. The first fatal shooting that day took place outside of Westfield Montgomery Mall and the other happened outside of a Giant grocery store in Aspen Hill.
After the final shooting, police identified Tordil’s car in a nearby parking lot. Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said at a hearing that Tordil may have stayed near the scene because he lost his eye glasses in a struggle with the final victim.
An officer spotted Tordil at a nearby Dunkin Donuts, and police put him under surveillance until it was safe to make the arrest.
Authorities said that the shootings happened two months after his wife filed a protective order over alleged abuse, and Tordil was put on administrative duty from the Federal Protective Service. Officials also asked him to surrender all of his weapons, but he did not hand over a .40-caliber Glock handgun, which he used in the shooting.
During his sentencing in Montgomery County, prosecutors said that Tordil wrote in a journal asking “God and the potential victims … for forgiveness” before the shooting spree occurred, according to The Washington Post.
