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(Local10News) ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. Detectives believe the Publix murder-suicide was a random act by a mentally ill man, the Palm Beach County Sheriffs 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 boys 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 Walls life spoke up about it.
Hes on Facebook. He has said, I want to kill people and children, Bradshaw said. Hes got friends. Obviously they saw that. His ex-wife said hes been acting strange. He thinks hes being followed. Hes paranoid. You think a damn soul told us about that? No.
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Shell_Seas
(3,435 posts)ZZenith
(4,299 posts)Please?
Someone just lost their mother and their son in one horrific and likely avoidable atrocity.
Whats it going to take?
bahboo
(16,884 posts)maxsolomon
(34,894 posts)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
(43,182 posts)Trump, pandemic and murdered in a grocery store.
Horrible.
ck4829
(35,691 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 29, 2021, 12:03 PM - Edit history (1)
Critical Race TheoryShazzieB
(18,385 posts)I'm pretty sure that's what was meant.
ck4829
(35,691 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 29, 2021, 12:04 PM - Edit history (1)
Critical Race Theory70sEraVet
(4,092 posts)I guess "I want to kill people and children" is not one of those phrases.
llmart
(16,277 posts)Facebook keeps trying to convince us that they are doing everything they can to monitor posts.
I call b.s.
SergeStorms
(19,273 posts)for Zuckerberg to act on.
Nevilledog
(53,026 posts)Interested to see when and how he got the gun.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)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
(26,476 posts)At least that's what all the gun apologists claim.