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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He’s just reacting to slavery and Jim Crow. Black Lives Matter, and are qualitatively superior to white lives, don’t you know? Four out of five dentists surveyed say so.
Amend the Constitution first to nullify the pernicious precedents that have brought all this to pass. Give a two-thirds majority in one house and a simple majority in the other the power to nullify bad rulings by SCOTUS.
There is this group tha is called the ACLU who would just say “no” as in see you in court.
You are 100% correct and then add in the cost. Equipment that needs to be updated all the time and highly trained personnel cost money.
A trial that took place in Atlanta, some years ago, had some forensic evidence. At the opening of the trial, the judge told the jury, believe it or not, that what they’re about see and hear is not TV. And that if they wanted a TV crime lab, their property taxes would go through the roof, for one, and that DNA results aren’t completed in 20 mins.
No I don’t.
I was a detective. Unlike many, or even most, cops I don’t wave the Blue Line flag or think every cop walks on water and we should all bow in subservience. Far from it. But, I do get more than a bit peeved when people, who’ve never done it, cast judgement on some things after the fact, when they were there and don’t know all the circumstances.
Duly noted.
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