Posted on 04/23/2018 11:36:23 AM PDT by Simon Green
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The suspect in a quadruple homicide at a Nashville Waffle House was taken into custody Monday, police said.
Authorities had mounted a massive manhunt for 29-year-old Travis Reinking, after the Sunday morning attacks.
Authorities announced the arrest Monday afternoon on Twitter, but did not immediately give details.
More than 100 Nashville police officers had been going door-to-door and searching wooded areas, joined by dozens of agents with the FBI, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Police said he had stolen a BMW days before the attack. The car was quickly recovered, but authorities did not immediately link it to Reinking.
Reinking, described as a white man with brown hair, opened fire with an AR-15 in the Waffle House parking lot and then stormed the restaurant shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, police say. Four people were killed and four others were injured before a quick-thinking customer wrestled the assault weapon away, preventing more bloodshed. Reinking then disappeared, police said.
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.
Meanwhile, authorities in Illinois shared past reports suggesting multiple red flags about a disturbed young man with paranoid delusions.
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Still naked?
This rocket science wiped his prints?!
Or the crime scene techs and/or lab are/is so backed up it takes forever to get results...?
“Still naked?”
Nah, his handler gave him his clothes back.
Or finding car thieves is something the department has given low priority. If so, wonder how the families of the Waffle House vics would feel about that...
>>Or finding car thieves is something the department has given low priority. If so, wonder how the families of the Waffle House vics would feel about that...
How big do you want government to be? What percentage of stolen cars led to mass shootings last year?
Or it was just another recovered stolen car, that they had no way of knowing he had taken it. I guess that can’t happen. In a city where cars are stolen, probably on an hourly basis.
Hang the bastid.
They included people of different races and ethnicities, but the four people killed were minorities_three black and one Hispanic.
BREAKING: Travis Reinking apprehended moments ago in a wooded area near Old Hickory Blvd & Hobson Pk.
Yeah, they will try to call this a hate crime, but if the races were reversed it’s clearly mental illness.
Nashville is only 57% non-Hispanic white. Soon it will be majority minority. They are already trying to make this racial, without any evidence so far.
Is there ever a good reason to steal a car?
Most cars aren’t stolen for joy rides.
He’s also had contact with the FBI in the recent past, another recurring problem.
Gee, they have a special unit for auto theft...
“Meanwhile, authorities in Illinois shared past reports suggesting multiple red flags about a disturbed young man with paranoid delusions.”
And, there seems to be a single glaring common thread with all of the mass killings: the FBI knew about him and didn’t do a damn thing to stop it.
Keep guns -get rid of the FBI
>>Most cars aren’t stolen for joy rides.
Most are stolen as property crimes only and you really don’t want it back after some meth head drives it for an hour. Voice of experience talking here.
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