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Federal Officer in Custody after 3 Fatal Shootings 

BEN NUCKOLS                    Police take Eulalio Tordil, 62, a suspect in three fatal shootings in the Washington, D.C., area into  The brief manhunt and
Associated Press                                                                                                                      seemingly indiscriminate
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) —      custody in Bethesda, Md., Friday, May 6, 2016. Tordil is an employee of the Federal Protective Ser-    shootings rekindled fears
A federal security officer                                                                                                            of the D.C. sniper in 2002,
suspected in three fatal       vice, which provides security at federal properties. He was put on administrative duties in March      which paralyzed the na-
shootings outside a high                                                                                                              tion’s capital and its sub-
school, a mall and a super-    after a protective order was issued against him.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)                              urbs.
market in the Washington,                                                                                                             Plainclothes officers trailed
D.C., area was arrested                                                                                                               Tordil for an hour, watch-
Friday, police said. Three                                                                                                            ing him walk from store to
people were also wound-                                                                                                               store at a shopping center
ed in the shootings.                                                                                                                  as they waited for the right
Eulalio Tordil, an employee                                                                                                           time to arrest him.
of the Federal Protective                                                                                                             He had earlier threatened
Service, which provides se-                                                                                                           to “commit suicide by
curity at federal properties,                                                                                                         cop” and authorities want-
was taken into custody                                                                                                                ed to make sure the public
without incident near the                                                                                                             was safe when he was ar-
supermarket, the scene of                                                                                                             rested.
the last shooting, authori-
ties said.                                                                                                                               Continued on page 2