The psycho Brooklyn-born Marine who killed two colleagues in a New Jersey supermarket shooting spree fantasized years ago about carrying out a workplace killing.
Terence Tyler, 23, who killed himself with a handgun after slaying two co-workers with an assault rifle during his early-morning rampage Friday, posted the diabolical tirades in 2009, when he was a Marine stationed in San Diego.
“smh is it normal to want to kill ALL of ur coworkers?Maybe but I’m actually in a position where I can,smh,” the maniac mused. “SMH” is shorthand for “shaking my head.”
“I’m starting to see why plp go on killin sprees,” he wrote. “And these [obscenity] are reeeeeeally pushin my kill everyone I see button.”
The Old Bridge Pathmark remained closed yesterday as friends and co-workers mourned the deaths of Cristina LoBrutto, 18, and Bryan Breen, 24.
“They were beautiful children. They were always happy and helpful,” said Boyka Hristova, 57, a former Pathmark employee who lives around the corner from the bloodbath scene.
Besides the weapons used in the carnage, Tyler had a shotgun in his car, a law-enforcement source said.
Investigators are still trying to determine a motive, but they do not believe Tyler targeted specific people. Investigators were reviewing Pathmark security footage yesterday.
Tyler’s relatives said they did not see the violence coming — despite the warning signs he posted on social-networking sites.
“If I was aware that he was making posts like that back then, I would have confronted him and asked him what was wrong and asked him to talk to me and open up,” said Fatima Dyson, 34, Tyler’s sister.
“We all knew he was depressed, but we didn’t know where that kind of thing could lead,” Dyson said.
Relatives said Tyler suffered from depression after his mother died of cancer five years ago. Her birthday would have been Monday.
Tyler — an avid video game fan who hails from East New York — joined the Marines after her death. He was discharged in 2010.
Before his discharge, he tweeted about how much he hated the Marines.
“I no murdering sum1 cuz u hate them is wrong but being here makes me think about that . . . really does,” he wrote in October 2009.
Tyler recently moved to New Jersey and had been a stock boy at Pathmark for two weeks.
“I asked him how things were at work and he said they were fine,” said Dyson, who shared an apartment in Parlin, NJ, with her brother. “Everything else, he kept to himself.”