The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Suspect arrested after Waffle House shooting
The suspect in a quadruple homicide at a US restaurant has been taken into custody, police said.
Authorities had mounted a manhunt for 29-year-old Travis Reinking, after the Sunday morning shooting at a Waffle House in Nashville.
More than 100 police officers had been going door-to-door and searching wooded areas, joined by agents with the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and officers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Reinking, described as a white man with brown hair, opened fire with an AR-15 in the Waffle House car park and then stormed the restaurant shortly after 3am on Sunday, police say.
Four people were killed
“Me, my husband and sons are broken right now with this loss”
and four injured before a customer wrestled the assault weapon away, preventing more bloodshed. Reinking then disappeared, police said.
Police said 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 killed were minorities – three black and one Hispanic.
The victims were employee Taurean Sanderlin, 29, from Goodlettsville; Joe Perez, 20, of Nashville; student DeEbony Groves, 21; and rap artist Akilah Dasilva 23 from Antioch.
Mr Perez’s mother said: “Me, my husband and sons are broken right now with this loss.”