Posted on 06/12/2021 1:08:42 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. – Detectives believe the Publix murder-suicide was a random act by a mentally ill man who had made online threats, and that a grandmother fighting back may have saved other lives, 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.
Investigators say Wall walked into the Publix at 1180 Royal Palm Beach Boulevard in Royal Palm Beach about 20 minutes after the woman and child, using a golf club putter as a cane. Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says the woman had stepped away from her shopping cart for just a second to get an item when Wall attacked at 11:34 a.m.
“He takes out his gun and he fires one round killing the child,” PBSO Maj. Talal Masri said. “Grandma instinctively jumps in to try and stop him, she struggles with him. His gun jams but he’s able to overpower her push her to the ground and he shoots her down while she’s on the ground.”
Wall then turned the gun on himself, investigators say.
PBSO believes the 69-year-old woman fighting back allowed other people time to flee the store and escape more potential bloodshed.
The young boy was to turn 2 later this month. His grandmother was a retired registered nurse. Authorities have not released either of the victims’ names.
The woman’s son, and the deceased boy’s father, is a civilian employee with the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department. He’s an evidence specialist who has worked for the agency for more than 20 years. He had to come to the scene Thursday to identify the bodies of his son and his mother.
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Brave lady. Too bad there were no brave men around to jump in and help when she was struggling with the psycho and his gun jammed.
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Good job, Grandma. You done good.
Tragic story, but peoples responses can be bizarre.
“Ana Hernandez dropped off a teddy bear for the young boy who was killed yesterday at the Publix.”
?????????????? He is DEAD! He doesn’t need a teddy bear.
The perp is dead = justice (here on earth).
The little boy is in heaven and the perp is burning in hell for all eternity. God’s justice.
These types of things CAN NOT BE PREVENTED!
Sin is in the world, Satan, the god of this world, currently rules this world.
2 Corinthians 4:4 New Living Translation
Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News.
I was just a minute away.
Are you a child or a grandmother? You weren’t even IN the store! You were in as much danger as I am sitting here in NY.
People kill me.
Blue county. Disarmed citizens zone.
Blue counties have all mass shooters in FL. Unarmed targets.
County laws override state law in PA? Nah.
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