Pic of AR-15 on floor of Waffle House from other Thread.Note that it’s dirty/rusty like it might have been buried.
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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White Vans are the new SUVs.
Right was praising him, too. He deserved praise. Leftists might have been praising him extra hard because he was black, but rightists had similar reasons, to show they aren’t racist, as if that would convince leftists.
But whatever the motives, he deserved praise. He took initiative and fought, instead of hiding in place. He used his noodle, and waited ‘til psycho-boy was reloading for another salvo to make his move, minimizing the risks to himself and others. He was modest, instead of jumping in front of the cameras and making speeches and making it all about him.
The fact that he went to church with his mother and the fact that he is black are big pluses, because that helps sooth, if not heal, the big divide that’s threatening America’s internal cohesion. Trump ought to invite him to the White House sometime soon.
Why isn’t that POS bruised and bleeding?
I expected them to find him scattered, smothered and covered.
Of course. If it’s white, it’s racist, like all white honkeys./s
Pic of AR-15 on floor of Waffle House from other Thread.Note that it’s dirty/rusty like it might have been buried.
We gotta outlaw mental illness. That’d stop these shootings. /s
Trial in the morning.
Conviction during lunch.
Appeals made and denied in the afternoon.
Execution before suppertime.
On noes, it has a collapsible stock! Oh the huge manatee!
He said the guy’s gun jammed and that’s when he moved in and tackled him.
That’ll do it. Have a zero tolerance policy, and lock up all loonies, whether or not they’re a threat to themselves or others. Shock treatment and Thorazine for all. If SCOTUS or some state judges object, well, send ‘em over to their houses to stay as welcome guests.
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.
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!
...Police said he had stolen a BMW days before the attack.
That explains everything.
I saw him on the news. Humble guy, he said people are saying I’m a hero but really, I was just trying to save myself, I thought ‘he’s going to have to work for this kill’. And I’m sure that’s so true, he wasn’t thinking of others, who would at that point. He was in survival mode but so humble to say that. I like him. ;D
press conf. said that he had a Colorado ID in his wallet (didn’t say if it was handwritten id or not, just ‘colorado’)
In St Louis they’re stolen to get home from girlfriend’s house.
Like I said elsewhere, he deserves to be smothered and covered.
How long before we hear there was “NO MOTIVE” and his dad is an FBI agent?
What did he get at colorado’s dispensaries?
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