Saturday at 7:00
Welcoming Shoppers Back to the Crime Scene
The gunman who opened fire in a grocery store Thursday first fired one shot that killed a 1-year-old boy before struggling with the boy's 69-year-old grandmother and then fatally shooting her, authorities said.
The shooter, identified as 55-year-old Timothy J. Wall, then killed himself, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
The motive in the shooting remains unknown. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has said there is no known relationship between the shooter and the victims.
Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw indicated in a news conference Friday that Wall had expressed on social media a desire to "kill people and children."
A spokesperson for Publix told reporters Friday the store had been disinfected and rearranged.
"We discarded any product that was impacted and we also redesigned the layout of our store," said Maria Brous, Publix Supermarkets director of communications.
The store will reopen at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Brous told CNN.
This CNN article was written after last week’s horrific shooting at a Florida grocery store.
I found it doubly shocking. First, there’s the incident itself, and second, there’s this bizarre article, which details the particularly brutal crime and ends with Publix’s sanitizing and reopening protocols.
Streamlining such a tragic, disturbing chain of events, bypassing even the perfunctory outrage, the lame call for thoughts and prayers, to land on what time, precisely, the store will reopen seems absurd, unconscionable. But I suppose knowing when shoppers will be able to access their disinfected produce may be the only question in all of this that has an answer.