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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You know that’s a really good point, and more true than we’d like to think.
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.
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.
You should try decaf.
The Big Lebowski...
Also, he thinks Taylor Swift is stalking him. Nope. No problems there!
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.
Tennessee shooting: BAN the AR-15!
Toronto van massacre: Execute the Perp!
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.
The father of this mental mess had better be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.
Victims were black, shooter is white. Wonder what the motivation was?
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?
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.
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.
AM NOT! AM NOT!!
She stalks everybody.
It’d be attributed to the humidity.
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