Associated Press
OLD BRIDGE, N.J.
An ex-Marine who had suffered from depression and once tweeted about killing “everyone I see” opened fire in camouflage gear at a New Jersey supermarket, gunning down two co-workers before he killed himself, authorities said.
Terence Tyler, 23, left his night clerk shift at a Pathmark store in Old Bridge Township around 3:30 a.m., drove off and returned 20 minutes later to the closed store with a handgun and an assault rifle similar to an AK-47, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said. About 12 to 14 workers were still there, inputting new prices into the computer.
Tyler fired more than 16 rounds from his rifle — shooting at an employee standing outside and firing as he entered the store, blowing out the front windows, authorities said. He shot at five other workers in an aisle, killing Christina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24, Kaplan said.
“I do not believe that they were specifically targeted. I believe everybody in the store was a target,” said Kaplan.
Tyler, who began working at the supermarket less than two weeks ago, drew his handgun and killed himself, the prosecutor said.
The motive was under investigation. But family members said Tyler had been discharged from the Marines two years ago after suffering from depression and had never gotten over his mother’s death; the shooting happened around the five-year anniversary of her death, they said.
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Shamefully we ask the most out of the best of our society...then, we let them fend for themselves with their wounds, both mental and physical, incurred serving us. We do some for a few, but by not means do we fulfill all of our duties to those in need.
That failure lays at the feet of both parties, all citizens. Shame on us.
We can't blame this on his service record - plenty of people suffer from depression and don't go on killing sprees.