Publix shooting: Killer made threats against children on social media; family says he was schizophrenic – Palm Beach Post

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ROYAL PALM BEACH — Timothy J. Wall posted on social media that he wanted to kill people — particularly children. The unemployed carpenter had displayed increasingly paranoid behavior for days. And Thursday morning, he appeared to be looking to bring his Facebook insanity to reality.

Timothy J. Wall, 55, shot a woman and her grandson in a Royal Palm Beach Publix on Thursday morning, then turned the gun on himself.

Wall found his victims at 11:35 a.m. Thursday, killing two strangers: a 69-year-old grandmother and her toddler grandson, nearly 2. They died while doing an everyday chore in one of the most communal of places: a Publix Super Market in Royal Palm Beach. 

A former relative of Wall, the sister of his ex-wife, told The Palm Beach Post on Friday that the 55-year-old Acreage resident suffered from schizophrenia and that her sister had previously reached out to law enforcement for help.

More:Royal Palm Beach mayor on Publix shooting: What happened was ‘too tragic, too familiar.’

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