LAUREL, Del. – A man wearing a bulletproof vest killed two people and wounded four others yesterday during a rampage in Maryland and Delaware before police arrested him, authorities said.

Police said the suspect also car-jacked a vehicle, shot and killed a dog, stole a pit bull, sprayed bullets at a series of homes and cars, and rammed an SUV into a chain-link fence during the crime spree.

“Quite a morning for a little rural town,” said Laurel’s mayor, John Shwed.

The attacks started in Laurel, where three men were shot, and continued across the border in Maryland, where the suspect fled on foot before being caught. The three other people were shot in Salisbury, Md., including one who died, Corporal Oldham said.

Police identified the suspect only as a man in his late teens or early 20s. A witness said police told her that the suspect was trying to shoot into an apartment in Laurel where his girlfriend lived when the spree began.

Two people were shot at the apartment building, and another at a nearby shopping center.

At the shopping center, a trail of blood led down a road. Witnesses said a man was shot on the side of the road, then staggered along the storefronts before collapsing. The mayor said this victim was apparently shot while trying to hitch a ride from the suspect as he fled the scene.

In Salisbury, Md., he ran a sport utility vehicle into a house, then car-jacked a vehicle and was involved in an accident, police said. Maryland State Police said the suspect was wearing the bulletproof vest and carrying a handgun when he was caught in Salisbury.