1:45 p.m. UPDATE: Richard Travis Timilty’s parents said Thursday they had seen him about 30 minutes before the apparent murder-suicide in which Timilty and Holly Given, his girlfriend, died.

Lisa Martinez and Dennis Bater said Timilty’s phone died when he was drinking with friends at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant. Martinez and Bater, who are divorced, said they drove together to pick him up.

"He was smiling," Martinez said outside the Surf Road apartment building where Timilty and Given lived and the shooting took place. "He was happy."

His parents said said Timilty was planning on buying an engagement ring and proposing to Given during Christmas. Bater said Timilty called Given "the one." The parents denied rumors that the couple was fighting.

Timilty was also recently promoted to boat captain and was excited to have a job he loved, his parents said.

"The fish just came to him," Bater said. "He finally achieved his goal, becoming a boat captain. He had such a bright future."

Original post: A relative’s request for a welfare check Wednesday afternoon led Riviera Beach police to discover a man and a woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide on Singer Island, authorities said Thursday morning.

City police say Richard Travis Timilty, 27, appears to have shot his girlfriend, Holly Given, 26, and then himself in their apartment on the 1200 block of Surf Road, just west of Ocean Drive and north of Blue Heron Boulevard, police said. The couple was found at about 3:30 p.m.

Given was from Key Largo, according to her Facebook page. It said she worked as a real-estate agent and at Sailfish Marina, along the Intracoastal Waterway about a mile south of their apartment.

Police said Given and Timilty did not have any prior history of domestic calls that they know of. Investigators did not give any indication of motive. ?A day before the couple died, neighbor Melissa Birch said she saw Given running up and down her two-story walk-up, bringing belongings to her car. She said Given was in a hurry.?

?"There was a history there," Birch said. ?

?Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police at 561-845-4123 or Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 800-458-TIPS (8477)

She announced her relationship with Timilty on her profile on Oct. 20, the day he filed for divorce after less than a year of marriage to another woman, according to court records. The marriage was dissolved Nov. 28.

Timilty was from Satellite Beach, according to his Facebook page. Police believe he also worked at Sailfish Marina Resort. Their social-media accounts often show them hunting and ocean fishing. Timilty posted a video on Instagram on Monday that shows him hunting hogs and indicated that Given was with him.

Friends commented with heart emojis and positive messages. After news broke of the murder-suicide, commenters sent condolences to the family and mourned the young couple.

"So devastated. Praying for their families. What a loss. Holly the world was a better place with you in it. Now heaven is a better place. Prayers for the families," one posted.

The homicide was the 96th confirmed one in Palm Beach County during 2017 and the 12th in Riviera Beach, according to a Palm Beach Post database. This is also the third murder-suicide attempt on Singer Island in as many years.

On Nov. 25 2015, 75-year-old Michael Singer and his wife 79-year-old wife Carmen Singer were found shot to death in their gated Cote D’Azur condominium complex on North Ocean Drive. Police said it was a murder-suicide.

On May 27, 2016, James Huhta stabbed his 79-year-old wife, Mary, to death and attempted to kill himself by overdosing on insulin. When he woke up, he said he felt hopeless then jumped from the second-floor balcony of their Eastpointe condominium on North Ocean Drive. He was eventually arrested and charged with her death but died before his trial.

Also, Hugh Jeantinor shot and killed his wife near Greenacres on Jan. 30, 2016, then shot himself as he fell from the Blue Heron Bridge.