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Police: Waffle House suspect arrested
Yahoo! ^ | 04/23/18

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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To: rktman

You know that’s a really good point, and more true than we’d like to think.


61 posted on 04/23/2018 1:27:16 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: qaz123

I once had a conversation with a crime scene technician. He confirmed what I’d heard that juries were now starting to almost demand the full blown super high tech CSI treatment for every case. This is absolutely impossible. Most of the stuff they did on CSI was legitimate, but he told me there’s not one crime lab in the country as well equipped as the TV show. And of course, the time requirement is greatly reduced.

There is no possible way to devote total resources to one crime, especially not something as basic as a stolen car.


62 posted on 04/23/2018 1:37:12 PM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: Simon Green

So where and how was he caught?

Were any non minority (whites) peoples shot? If so, that’s some incredible shooting to only kill the minorities. He must have practiced for years.


63 posted on 04/23/2018 1:37:54 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: qaz123

You should try decaf.


64 posted on 04/23/2018 1:44:45 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Bryanw92

The Big Lebowski...


65 posted on 04/23/2018 2:08:35 PM PDT by patro
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
"Previously arrested at the White House. Waling around naked except for a jacket and shooting people at a Waffle House at 3 am. Yeah you could say he might have mental issues!"

Also, he thinks Taylor Swift is stalking him. Nope. No problems there!

66 posted on 04/23/2018 2:09:36 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: Bryanw92

https://youtu.be/nSjblhfBV-M


67 posted on 04/23/2018 2:11:27 PM PDT by patro
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To: Eleutheria5

The liberals have decided its a lot more humane to unleash tens of thousands mental cases on the general public then lock them up like the States used to.

This is where the action needs to be directed, build mental wards and start locking people up.


68 posted on 04/23/2018 2:17:59 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Simon Green
Liberal Logic:

Tennessee shooting: BAN the AR-15!

Toronto van massacre: Execute the Perp!

69 posted on 04/23/2018 2:55:20 PM PDT by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: dljordan
his handler

EXACTLY. I believe strongly that FBI/CIA/ATF assets are being used to INTENTIONALLY perpetrate mass murders with AR-15's, so as to facilitate a gun ban.

70 posted on 04/23/2018 2:58:51 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Gator113; Simon Green

The father of this mental mess had better be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.


71 posted on 04/23/2018 3:12:39 PM PDT by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WIINNING WAYsi)
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To: Simon Green

Victims were black, shooter is white. Wonder what the motivation was?


72 posted on 04/23/2018 3:14:06 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

A black man shot and killed two white men and seriously wounded a white female in Corinth, Mississippi, last week. Crickets...


73 posted on 04/23/2018 3:52:39 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug
A black man shot and killed two white men and seriously wounded a white female in Corinth, Mississippi, last week. Crickets...

Maybe if he'd done it nekked?

74 posted on 04/23/2018 3:56:08 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: mabarker1

Actually it looks like a brand new item. The smudges on the bbl &frnot sight assembly appear to be brand new unoiled parkerizing. The buttstock at an angle suggests an improper tightening& staking job. I say brand new bargain basement m4gery. The trace will tell more. If it was one he owned before Il declared him unstable, then daddy may share a cell with him.


75 posted on 04/23/2018 4:04:08 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: TomGuy

Obviously this was a well though out “hate crime”. The shooter even went so far as to begin the shooting spree while wearing no pants so potential jurors will see he’s nuts.


76 posted on 04/23/2018 4:05:20 PM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: TennesseeGirl
Also, he thinks Taylor Swift is stalking him.

The guy is totally delusional. After all, Taylor Swift is stalking ME!
77 posted on 04/23/2018 4:17:46 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: Colinsky
After all, Taylor Swift is stalking ME!

AM NOT! AM NOT!!

78 posted on 04/23/2018 4:20:34 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

She stalks everybody.


79 posted on 04/23/2018 4:37:09 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: DoodleDawg

It’d be attributed to the humidity.


80 posted on 04/23/2018 4:38:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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