A Morton, Illinois man is a suspect in a deadly Waffle House shooting in Tennessee that killed four people, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.
29-year-old Travis Reinking of Morton, Ill. is wanted by police after he was last seen leaving the Waffle House at 3571 Murfreesboro Pike in Antioch outside Nashville. He was seen walking south on Murfreesboro Pike, according to a Metro Nashville Police Department tweet early Sunday.
He took off his coat and was spotted wearing black pants and no shirt, police said. He is not believed to be armed, but police said he has a propensity for guns, so not ruling out that he may be armed and dangerous.
Reinking allegedly opened fire on the restaurant at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, killing four people and wounding four others.
Two people were fatally shot outside the restaurant as Reinking allegedly started firing his “assault-type rifle” as he got out of his truck, police said. One person was shot inside the restaurant and a fourth person died at a hospital.
A patron wrestled away the gunman’s rifle, police said. The patron suffered minor injuries. Police called the man who wrestled the gun away “a hero.”
UPDATE…..In a press conference, Nashville police said the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office had previously seized weapons from Travis Reinking after his Illinois FOID card was revoked. One of those weapons was the AR-15 used in this morning’s mass shooting in Nashville. The Nashville police said Tazewell County authorities later gave those weapons back to Reinking’s father, who then gave the weapons back to his son.
