Beltway Shooter Tordil Sentenced For Montgomery County Murders

ROCKVILLE, MD — Former federal law enforcement officer and Beltway shooter Eulalio Tordil, 63, of Boyds, was sentenced Friday to life without parole plus three consecutive life sentences for shootings in Montgomery County that killed two people and wounded two others. In April, Tordil pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder in a Montgomery County courtroom in exchange for the life sentence.

Last month he pleaded guilty to the May 2016 murder of his estranged wife, Gladys Tordil, outside a Beltsville high school, which started a two-day string of shootings that in total killed three people and injured three others, police say. The guilty plea in Prince George’s County Circuit Court by Tordil was his second.

The day after Tordil murdered his wife, he shot three people at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, then shot and killed one woman at Giant Foods in Silver Spring.

Judge Sharon Burrell said Tordil committed the ultimate crime and deserved the ultimate punishment. “[He] committed murders and attempted murders in cold blood,” Burrell said. Tordil did not speak at his sentencing, WTOP reports.

Montgomery County Shootings

Carl Unger was at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda on May 6, 2016, to have lunch with his friend, Malcom Winffel, 45, of Boyds. Both men were shot when they tried to help a woman whose car Tordil was trying to steal, police said.

"He looked dead at us and was smiling before he started shooting," Unger told NBC Washington.

The carjacking victim outside the Macy’s store ran between Unger and Winffel, which is when Tordil began to fire his handgun. Unger was shot four times: Once in the shoulder, twice in the back and once in the foot. He suffered a collapsed lung as a result of one of the bullets in his back and still has a bullet in his shoulder, according to his family.

Tordil was accused of the fatal shootings of Winffel and Claudina Modina, 65, of Montgomery County. Modina, a nurse, was shot in a second failed carjacking attempt at the Giant store in Silver Spring, authorities say.

Prince George's County Shootings

The former federal security officer gunned down his wife, a teacher, as she waited for her daughters in a High Point High School parking lot May 5, 2016. She had received a protective order that forbid her husband from coming near her Prince George's County home, workplace or children.

Police say Eulalio Tordil shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on a Good Samaritan who had, moments earlier, noticed the couple struggling and asked Gladys Tordil if everything was OK. Gladys Tordil was a chemistry teacher at Parkdale High School in Riverdale.

Investigators say Eulalio Tordil followed his wife to High Point High School, got out of his car and confronted Gladys Tordil as she sat in her vehicle.

“I’m her husband,” he told the bystander before the shooting began.

SEE ALSO:

• Beltway Shooting Spree: Eulalio Tordil's Miranda Rights Violated Prosecutor Says
• Maryland Woman Killed By Husband During Shooting Spree Asked Court For Protective Order: Police
• High School Slaying: Fundraiser Set Up For Girls; Victim Had Stayaway Order; Husband Arrested
• High Point High School Shooting: Husband Sought in Wife's Death
• Washington Beltway Shootings: 4 Shot, 2 Killed in Mall and Grocery; Federal Officer in Custody

The protective order says that Eulalio – who had a black belt in the martial art of aikido -- slapped, shoved, and raped his wife. He also forced the two girls into rigorous discipline that included numerous push-ups and putting them in "detention" in closets, the mother told the judge, according to court papers.

Tordil, a former Federal Protective Service officer, had been depressed after being suspended from work, the result of complaints filed by his wife when she sought a protective order from the spouse she said had beaten and raped her for years. Eulalio Tordil told a colleague he planned to run his car off a bridge, according to prosecutors.

Tordil's plea deal calls for a sentence of life in prisonwithout parole, WTOP reports. He will be sentenced in Montgomery County July 7.

»Photo of shooting suspect Eulalio Tordil courtesy of Montgomery County Police; photo of Gladys Tordil used with permission of Eric Paviat