The New York Times reports A supermarket worker left his overnight shift here then returned with an AK-47 assault rifle and killed two co-workers before fatally shooting himself, officials said on Friday.This one is a mass shooting in all but the body count. And that was only an accident.
The gunman, a former Marine, re-entered the Pathmark Super Center on Route 9 about 4 a.m., firing the rifle wildly and shattering the store’s windows, the authorities said. The co-workers he killed appeared to be random victims, said Bruce Kaplan, the Middlesex County prosecutor. One was an 18-year-old woman, and the other was a 24-year-old man, officials said.
Local authorities identified the gunman as Terence Tyler, 23. He was discharged from the Marines in 2010. The victims were identified as Christina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24.
Mr. Kaplan said the police did not know what precipitated the shooting in this community about 30 miles south of Manhattan. He said the gunman, who lived in an apartment building just behind the Pathmark, had been working the overnight shift with more than a dozen other employees before he left and returned with the rifle and a handgun.
The shooter, like they usually do, chose the place of his grievance regardless of whether that place might allow guns or not. There was no attempt to select a carefully chosen gun free zone in order to have the advantage of sitting ducks.
Of course there are those who will argue that New Jersey is one big gun free zone. But, the truth is random spree killers don't care about that one way or another.
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