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Three Dead in Shooting at New Jersey Pathmark [Updated]

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 13:  A person walks in to a Pathmark grocery store owned by the A&P grocery chain December 13, 2010 in New York City. Venerable grocery chain The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P filed for bankruptcy protection this weekend, under mounting debt and structural problems. The company founded in New York in 1859 owns close to 400 supermarkets in the Northeast under the names of A&P, Pathmark, Food Emporium, Waldbaum's, and others.  (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A week after the violence at the Empire State Building, another workplace shooting erupted in the early morning hours Friday at a New Jersey grocery store, where three people including the gunman are dead. Details are still being sorted, but the incident occurred around 4 a.m., before the store opened, at a Pathmark in Old Bridge, about 25 miles outside of New York. ABC reports that the suspect was a male in his 20s, a current or former employee, and one of his victims was an 18-year-old woman, according to NBC. The gunman, the town mayor said, was an ex-Marine and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Asbury Park Press reports:

[T]he ex-marine, also an Old Bridge resident, had worked at the store for about two weeks. He left the store this morning, and then returned a short time later, dressed in camouflage and armed with an AK-47 and an automatic pistol, the mayor said.

He killed two co-workers, a male and a female, before turning the gun on himself.

Update: The shooter has been identified as 23-year-old Terence S. Tyler, formerly of Brooklyn, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2008 until 2010. A law enforcement source told NBC that Tyler may have had a history of mental illness. A Facebook page matching his identifying information sports a profile picture reading, "Be optimistic — All the people you hate are going to eventually die."

This post has been updated throughout.

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Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images