BALTIMORE _ Video from inside the Harford County granite workshop where gunfire erupted Wednesday, killing three, shows suspect Radee L. Prince gather a group of co-workers together just moments before the violence.
"As soon as they get close, he pulls out the handgun and starts firing," Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun on Thursday. "Everyone fled. He chased a few."
The video, Gahler said, "will obviously be a key piece of evidence when this case is prosecuted."
A day after a multistate manhunt in the wake of two shootings that also left three others wounded, investigators from multiple law enforcement agencies continued to piece together what happened even as prosecutors filed a slate of charges against Prince, 37.
On Thursday, prosecutors also were discussing the extradition of Prince from Delaware, where he was captured by three Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents Wednesday evening, to Maryland, where he faces the most serious charges.
"It could be a few weeks before all of that pans out," Gahler said. "But the important thing is the suspect is off the road, out of the community and behind bars."
In Harford County, where he allegedly killed three co-workers and wounded two others at Advanced Granite Solutions in Edgewood, Prince is charged with first- and second-degree murder, attempted first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, and use of a firearm to commit a felony.
In Wilmington, Del., where Prince allegedly shot another man less than two hours after the Edgewood shooting, he is charged with first-degree attempted murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession or control of firearm by person prohibited, and carrying a concealed deadly weapon.
A Delaware magistrate ordered Prince held on $2.1 million bail after a Thursday morning court hearing. A preliminary hearing in that case has been scheduled in Wilmington on Oct. 31.
Gahler said his office has filed a detainer on Prince that would prevent his release in Delaware even if he did make bail in that state's case.
No attorney was listed for Prince, who remains jailed in Delaware.
A woman who answered the phone at the Wilmington number listed for Prince in court records hung up, and family could not be reached. An attorney who represented Prince in a previous criminal case also could not be reached for comment.
Prince, a machine operator who had worked at Advanced Granite Solutions for the last four months, is accused of killing three polishers at the counter maker, according to police and the company's owner, Burak Caba. The dead are Bayarsaikhan Tudev, 53, of Virginia; Jose Hidalgo Romero, 34, of Aberdeen; and Enis Mrvoljak, 48, of Dundalk.
Prince also is accused of wounding Enoc Villegas Sosa, 38, of North East, and Jose Roberto Flores Gillen, 37, of Edgewood, both of whom remained in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Thursday, police and hospital officials said.
The shooting occurred shortly before 9 a.m. in the company's rear workroom, Gahler said. At the time, there were 29 people in the business, but fewer than 10 in the work area. The others were in the front showroom and offices, Gahler said.
The call to police came at 8:58 a.m., deputies arrived by 9:02 a.m., and deputies were inside the business by 9:05 a.m. _ the result of lessons learned in active shooting events elsewhere, where police have been criticized for not storming scenes where more victims may be vulnerable, Gahler said.
Using recent "rescue task force" training, armed deputies also escorted paramedics inside almost immediately upon their arrival, rather than waiting for a perimeter to be cleared, Gahler said.
"They quickly got in to the two surviving victims of the shooting," he said. "And I'm thankful, and certainly believe that their quick medical attention helped save lives."
It wasn't long before deputies determined Prince was no longer there, Gahler said, but they didn't know where he was.
"We knew he wasn't at the business, but was he somewhere local? Or had he fled north or south on (Interstate) 95? Or still hanging out somewhere in Harford County? We had no idea," the sheriff said.
The investigation since has indicated that he got into an SUV in the parking lot of a nearby hotel and took off north. According to police in Wilmington, Prince drove to an auto shop there where a man he once had a "beef" with worked. Police said it was another targeted attack. They have not identified the man.
According to court records, the man told police that Prince was the shooter, as did a witness at the shop.
Nicole Magnusson, a spokeswoman with the Delaware prosecutor's office, said that in January 2016, Prince was charged with offensive touching in an incident involving the same victim, but the charge was dismissed prior to trial because of insufficient evidence.
After the Wilmington shooting, nearly seven hours passed with local and state police in Maryland and Delaware and several federal agencies all searching for Prince. Officers were stationed up and down I-95.
About 5:35 p.m., Prince's vehicle was spotted near a high school in Newark, Del. He was arrested about 7:05 p.m. by three ATF agents after a brief foot chase. No one was injured during the arrest.
Special Agent in Charge Daniel Board, of the ATF's Baltimore field division, praised the three agents Thursday for their bravery in capturing Prince.
"Every single day in Baltimore, throughout Maryland and across this great country, an ATF agent risks his or her life for someone else," Board said in a statement. "We would not choose the path to be an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives if we did not inherently have that sense of selflessness, bravery, and that steadfast courage to pursue danger in the darkness. We all made the choice to make someone's life safer than our own."
Gahler said a semi-automatic handgun was recovered in the arrest, and is undergoing ballistics testing to see if it matches the gun used in the two shootings.
Still, Gahler said, the motive in the shooting remained unclear Thursday. He said Prince lived with a girlfriend in Elkton, and she is cooperating with authorities.
"We do know there were issues between him and the co-workers. We know that he has an issue with previous employers and co-workers," Gahler said. "It appears this was a person who was rather difficult and didn't get along or made excuses to have grief with other people."
Whatever the reasoning, it isn't good, Gahler said.
"There is no motive that would allow any of us to justify this kind of action in our mind," he said. "There's no motive that he could come up with that I could think of that would let any sane person believe these actions would be appropriate under any circumstances."
Kim Holsapple, of Joppatowne, paid her respects to the victims of Wednesday's shooting with a bouquet of flowers she left Thursday morning at a small memorial outside Advanced Granite Solutions.
"It's just so sad what our society is coming to," she said. "These people need to be remembered. They didn't deserve this."
Holsapple said her daughter was nearby on lockdown after the shooting. She couldn't believe the suspect made it to Delaware, but was happy he was arrested without incident.
"I'm just glad they got him alive," she said. "Maybe he can answer some questions."
