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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 24 april 2018

Waffle House slaying suspect arrested after massive manhunt

By SHEILA BURKE rant parking lot before worked in construction for
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — storming the restaurant, a while.
The mentally unstable gun- which had about 20 peo- Police say Reinking drove
man suspected of killing ple inside. Four people — into the Waffle House park-
four people in a late-night three of them black and ing lot in his gold Chevy
shooting at a Waffle House one Hispanic — were killed Silverado pickup early Sun-
restaurant was arrested and four others injured be- day and sat there for about
near his apartment Mon- fore a customer wrestled four minutes before open-
day after hiding from po- the weapon away and ing fire.
lice for more than a day, Reinking, who is white, ran The victims fatally shot in
authorities said. out, police said. the parking lot have been
Police and federal agents Police said Reinking stole a identified as Taurean Sand-
had mounted a massive BMW days before the at- erlin, 29, of Goodlettsville,
manhunt for 29-year-old tack. The car was quickly and Joe Perez, 20, of Nash-
Travis Reinking after the recovered, but authorities ville. Sanderlin was an em-
Sunday morning attacks, in did not immediately link the ployee at the restaurant.
which a gunman clad only theft to Reinking. One of the fatally wound-
in a jacket used an assault Meanwhile, authorities in ed inside was DeEbony
rifle to attack a diverse Illinois shared past reports Groves, a 21-year-old stu-
crowd of patrons at the res- suggesting multiple red dent at Nashville's Belmont
taurant before being dis- flags about a disturbed University. She was remem-
armed by a patron. young man with paranoid bered as an exceptional
Construction workers told delusions. student who made the
officers Monday that a per- In May 2016, Reinking told Dean's list, and a tenacious
son matching Reinking's deputies from Tazewell basketball player.
description walked into the County, Illinois, that music In this photo released by the Metro Nashville Police Department, Akilah Dasilva was also
woods near a construction superstar Taylor Swift was Travis Reinking sits in a police car after being arrested in Nash- killed inside the restaurant.
site, Lt. Carlos Lara told re- stalking him and hacking ville, Tenn., on Monday, April 23, 2018. The 23-year-old from An-
porters. A detective spot- his phone, and that his fam- Associated Press tioch was a rap artist and
ted Reinking, who lay down ily was also involved. music video producer.
on the ground to be hand- Reinking agreed to go to a Trump. Reinking was not ing's father on the promise He was at the restaurant
cuffed when confronted, local hospital for an evalu- armed, but at the FBI's re- he would "keep the weap- with his girlfriend, 21-year-
Lara said ation after repeatedly re- quest, Illinois police revoked ons secure and out of the old Tia Waggoner, the pa-
Reinking carried a black sisting the request, the sher- his state firearms card and possession of Travis." per reported. Waggoner
backpack with a silver iff's report said. seized four guns from him, Reinking's father "has now was wounded and un-
semi-automatic weapon Another sheriff's report said authorities said. acknowledged giving derwent surgery to try to
and .45-caliber ammuni- Reinking barged into a The AR-15 used in the shoot- them back" to his son, Aar- save her leg, Dasilva's fam-
tion, Lara said. Detectives community pool in Trem- ings was among those on said. ily said. Police say Sharita
cut the backpack off him. ont, Illinois, last June, and seized. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobac- Henderson, 24, of Antioch,
Police spokesman Don Aar- jumped into the water In August, Reinking told po- co, Firearms and Explosives was wounded and being
on said Reinking requested wearing a pink woman's lice he wanted to file a re- special Agent Marcus Wat- treated as well.
a lawyer and was taken to coat over his underwear. port about 20 to 30 people son said Monday that ac- Also wounded was James
a hospital before he would Investigators believed he tapping into his computer tion is "potentially a viola- Shaw Jr., a 29-year-old res-
be booked on four counts had an AR-15 rifle in his car and phone and people tion of federal law." taurant patron who burned
of criminal homicide. trunk, but it was never dis- "barking like dogs" outside Phone calls to a number his hand grabbing the hot
It's not clear why Reink- played. No charges were his residence, according to listed for the father, Jef- muzzle of the assault weap-
ing attacked shortly after filed. a report. frey Reinking, went unan- on as he wrestled the gun
3 a.m. Sunday, though he Last July, Reinking was ar- "There's certainly evidence swered. away. A Nashville native
may have "mental issues," rested by the U.S. Secret that there's some sort of It is not clear why Reink- who works as a wireless
Metropolitan Nashville Po- Service after he entered mental health issues in- ing moved recently from technician for AT&T, Shaw
lice Chief Steve Anderson a restricted area near the volved," Tazewell County Morton, Illinois, and if it had said he was no hero — de-
said earlier. White House and refused Sheriff Robert Huston said. anything to do with being spite being hailed as one
Police said Reinking to leave, saying he wanted But he said deputies re- near Swift, who has a home by Nashville Mayor David
opened fire in the restau- to meet President Donald turned the guns to Reink- in Nashville. Police say he Briley.q