The suspect who allegedly killed four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee yesterday has been taken into custody, according to police.
Travis Reinking, 29, carried out the mass shooting at a Waffle House near Nashville early Sunday morning. The gunman was on the run for over 24 hours and believed to be armed before Nashville police arrested him Monday afternoon in a wooded area near Antioch, Tenn.
A bystander, James Shaw Jr., 29, managed to wrest the shooter’s AR-15-style rifle from his hands and throw it over the restaurant counter, after which the gunman fled on foot.
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Reinking was arrested by the Secret Service and charged with unlawful entry for trespassing on the grounds of the White House on July 7, 2017. He was sentenced to community service as a result of those charges, and the FBI seized his guns, including the AR-15-like rifle, but later returned them to the suspect’s father, who allowed him to take possession of them again.
The gunman is said to have a history of making suicidal remarks and to have once claimed music star Taylor Swift was stalking him. He is also accused of stealing a car from a Tennessee BMW dealership last week.
Metro Nashville Public Schools cancelled all after-school activities while the manhunt was still in progress.







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