An off duty fire-fighter/paramedic and father who was returning a kids meal toy at a Wendy’s was shot in the back and died after a random shooter open fired in the restaurant during lunch.

The shooter had no motive but to take down innocent people because he was miserable. What a selfish, selfish man. Hopefully, he’ll rot in internal hell. Rest in hell, POS.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Paramedic Rafael Vazquez left a training course on how to help when several people are hurt at once, and went to lunch at a nearby Wendy’s. He became exactly the kind of victim he was being trained to save.

As Vazquez stood at the counter waiting to exchange a promotional toy for his child, he was shot point blank in the back by a gunman wearing a jacket, tie and baseball cap. Four others, including a man from Killeen, Texas, were wounded by gunfire during the lunch hour rampage Monday, and the 60-year-old gunman — Alburn Edward Blake of West Palm Beach — committed suicide.

Melodie Conrad, a teacher at the Eagle Rock Elementary School & Magnet Center in Los Angeles, California, believes people should have a respect for all living things — all the way to down to any creepy, crawly critters that may invade her classroom. Conrad routinely appoints one of her students as an “insect monitor” whose job is to scoop up any wayward bugs and safely deposit them outside. She also maintains a “no squashing” policy in her class. Let’s hope none of her future student’s parents work for Orkin.

“I absolutely just feel like we live in a society where violence is prevalent, and I’ve seen that over the years I’ve been teaching. I just wanted to be careful that they’re exposed to just the opposite in this room,” said Conrad, a 21-year teaching veteran.

“I’m not trying to turn them into bug activists. But I hear these kids say how cool it is when they shot this person in a video game or how cool these bloody movies are, and I’m concerned. That made me think.”

To get her students to start thinking about the same issues, she asks them why some want to kill bugs. And it’s instilled a sense of respect for life among her students.

Rebecca Tokofsky, 9, said she used to call her dad to get rid of a “scary-looking spider.” Now, she is eager for her turn to become bug monitor.

We can’t even imagine what this dad must be going through emotionally.

A Northwest Washington man accidentally ran over and killed his 16-month-old son yesterday while pulling out of a space inside their apartment building’s garage, police said.

The boy, his mother and a family friend were preparing to get into other cars in the garage when the accident occurred at 11 a.m., police said. The mother and friend were loading items into the trunk of the mother’s car as the boy began to wander, police said.

JESUS CHRIST, what kind of psychopath does it take to do such a thing over an argument?

A man reportedly held a knife to the throat of his 15-month-old nephew and decapitated him in front of his mother in a Saudi Arabian supermarket.

The 25-year-old Syrian man beheaded the toddler apparently after having a dispute with the toddler’s parents, his sister and brother-in-law, Arab News reported.

Another newspaper, the Saudi Gazette, reported that the toddler was 18 months old.

The killing happened in front of shoppers and staff in the fruit and vegetable section of the Al-Marhaba supermarket yesterday morning.

Memphis, Tennessee police responded to a call at a home on Monday night and found a massacre scene — 2 children and 4 adults were found dead, and 3 children were injured. It appears as if the crime had taken place as early as Saturday. One can only imagine the horror of those children having to fight to survive for 2 days amongst all the carnage.

“I heard about six or seven shots [Saturday night],” said Wayne Bolden, a landscaper who said he lives across the street from the home where the killings occurred. “I did not call the police because you always hear shooting in this neighborhood. Now I wish I would have called.”

He said he did not see any movement at the home the next day — the two cars, a van and a passenger car, never moved.

Monday he saw many police cars at the home and heard about the killings, he said.

Memphis Fire Department spokeswoman Melanie Young said firefighters responded to a 911 call at a home at 6:11 p.m. Monday and found the bodies and wounded children.

A 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old whose gender wasn’t immediately known were taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center.

A Chicago man reported his car stolen Monday night, and told police that his 2-year-old son was inside. The police later learned he lied about the abduction, and placed the man into custody. Our armchair theory is that the guy thought the cops would make a better effort to find his car if an endangered child was involved…

The boy’s father told police he had left his 1986 four-door Buick Century running about 9:30 p.m. at the station in the 8700 block of South Cottage Avenue when someone jumped into the vehicle and sped off west on East 87th Street. But police early this morning said although the car was stolen, the toddler was never inside it.

The 24-year-old father is now in custody and likely will be charged with filing a false police report, police said. Meanwhile, the person who stole the vehicle remained at large.

About midnight, the toddler was found safe and unharmed in a residence in the 8800 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, said Officer Amina Greer.