“hate crime by shooter” — We won’t know until he is captured. Until then, I label it as ‘random target’ selected by it being a location where several people were at 3 a.m. (or time of the shooting.)
Waffle House Shooter had been captured.
Regarding ‘hate crime’ this is in another story quoting the local sheriff:
“Police say about 20 people were in the Waffle House at the time of the shootings. They included people of different races and ethnicities, but the four people killed were minorities_three black and one Hispanic.”
“It’s not clear why Reinking opened fire on restaurant patrons, though he may have “mental issues,” Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said earlier. He’s considered armed and dangerous, because he was known to have owned a handgun authorities have not recovered.”
I, too, wonder about the about the clothes the victims were wearing?