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Publix shooting: Killer made threats against children on social media; family says he was schizophrenic - Palm Beach Post
Jun 11, 2021 1 min, 48 secs
ROYAL PALM BEACH — Timothy J.

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.

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But Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw blasted the ex-wife and anybody who knew of Wall's unhinged social media raging but who had failed to notify authorities. .

Wall drove to the The Crossroads shopping plaza, at Okeechobee and Royal Palm Beach boulevards, on a red scooter.

Surveillance cameras caught him lurking in Walgreens and then again in Publix earlier in the morning, when he was apparently spooked off by a sheriff's deputy buying groceries.

Wall had shot himself in the head, sheriff's officials said.

The sheriff's office has not said what weapon Wall used to commit the murder-suicide.

Maia Knight of Wellington is the sister of Wall's ex-wife, Monica Sandra Wall.

She said Timothy Wall wasn't getting the help he needed for his mental illness, which she said was schizophrenia. .

A Palm Beach County circuit judge had allowed Timothy Wall to live in his marital home in Royal Palm Beach for a few months.

Leah Tyron, a Royal Pam Beach resident, said her cousin spoke to the sheriff's office.

The tragedy is the second recent shooting at a retailer that is part of the everyday routine of residents in Palm Beach County.

“(The shooting) makes me very cautious to have altercations with people," Tyron said.

Sarah Brown, a Loxahatchee resident and a hairstylist at Festive Cuts Beauty Salon in the Publix plaza, said customers and Publix employees took refuge at her business after the shooting

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