Jealous ex.
Police look at phone records for clues in jealousy shooting
Smith was a jealous ex-boyfriend of 25-year-old victim Chelsie Cline, according to family members of some of the victims.
Four days before the shooting, Chelsie Cline had shared a meme on Facebook reading "After this week, I rlly need to get taken out ... on a date or by a sniper either one is fine w me at this point."
A Facebook friend, Tim Smith, replied: "I could do both."
Timothy Smith was obsessed with Cline after they dated, leaving beer for her on her car and sending her flowers and other presents, said Chelsie Cline's half-sister, Sierra Kolarik, in an
interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Kolarik said Smith "came off as the most kind-hearted person" but that his interests were "guns and guns and guns and shooting and beer and rolling cigarettes."
Porterfield and Chelsie Cline spent time together in the days before the shooting after Cline broke off a relationship with Smith, Porterfield's widow, Jenna Porterfield, 24,
told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She said a state police investigator told her Smith was Cline's jealous former boyfriend.
"I was told my husband was cheating on me with (one of the victims), and that she had broken up with her previous boyfriend two days ago, and he went crazy and shot them all," she said.
State police said Smith was the first person to arrive at the car wash and parked his pickup truck on the side of the two-bay car wash. They said he shot Porterfield and Chelsie Cline when they got out of their car and walked to the side of the car wash.
Snyder and Seth Cline arrived in a pickup truck and were both shot and killed in their vehicle, state police said.