Publix murder-suicide: Grandmother tried to fight off man in seemingly random attack

[FM123]

(Local10News) ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. – Detectives believe the Publix murder-suicide was a random act by a mentally ill man, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Timothy J. Wall, 55 of Loxahatchee, is the man authorities say killed a woman and her nearly 2-year-old grandson before taking his own life in the frightening supermarket shooting Thursday morning.

Deputies say Wall walked into the Publix at 1180 Royal Palm Beach Boulevard in Royal Palm Beach and shot the toddler dead. The boy’s grandmother ran over to try and stop the attack. Wall knocked her to the ground, shot her, and then turned the gun on himself, investigators say.

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Bradshaw said this should have been prevented but no one in Wall’s life spoke up about it.

“He’s on Facebook. He has said, ‘I want to kill people and children,’” Bradshaw said. “He’s got friends. Obviously they saw that. His ex-wife said he’s been acting strange. He thinks he’s being followed. He’s paranoid. You think a damn soul told us about that? No.”

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[Shell_Seas]

1. OMG, that's horrific.

[ZZenith]

2. Can we please start funding mental hospitals again?

Please?

Someone just lost their mother and their son in one horrific and likely avoidable atrocity.

What’s it going to take?

[bahboo]

3. I'm with ya...

[maxsolomon]

4. wow, that's even worse than what i'd assumed.

I'd assumed it was an estranged husband killing his child and ex. a normal american familicide.

thanks again, guns, for facilitating paranoid psychosis. guess the grandmother should have been armed and seen it coming.

[lpbk2713]

5. That poor kid saw a crappy life.

Trump, pandemic and murdered in a grocery store.


Horrible.

[ck4829]

6. Random? Bull. He didn't randomly acquire a gun, he didn't randomly load it with ammo, etc.

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Critical Race Theory

[ShazzieB]

7. The choice of victims does seem to have been random.

I'm pretty sure that's what was meant.

[ck4829]

13. I know, but it's still worth saying

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Critical Race Theory

[70sEraVet]

8. I know that Facebook has algorithms that pick up certain words or phrases

I guess "I want to kill people and children" is not one of those phrases.

[llmart]

9. +1,000,000

Facebook keeps trying to convince us that they are doing everything they can to monitor posts.

I call b.s.

[SergeStorms]

10. Yeah, much too vague....

for Zuckerberg to act on.

[Nevilledog]

11. Just another member of a well regulated militia

Interested to see when and how he got the gun.

[Jon King]

12. The dimwits in the comment section are 'wishing she had been packing'

This myth of more guns is beyond stupid. The poor lady did not have a clue what was going on and rushed to the baby, the guy had her on the ground in 3 seconds, while all the other customers ran as fast as they could to save themselves.

But yeah, the grandmother should have instead engaged the deranged shooter in a gunfight...you know....like a Dirty Harry movie they clowns saw when they were kids.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Guns make us safer.

At least that's what all the gun apologists claim.