29-Year-Old ‘Hero’ in Tennessee Waffle House Shooting Speaks
By The Daily Caller. A 29-year-old man saved numerous lives after he took down the shooter who opened fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, Sunday morning, according to police.
James Shaw Jr. saw a chance to take down the shooter and did not hesitate, he said. The gunman entered naked except for a green jacket, which he later took off and opened fire, killing four people and injuring at least three others before Shaw Jr. was able to get the gun away from the shooter, WBIR 10 News reported.
This is the Waffle House hero, James Shaw Jr. He tackled the shooter and saved so many lives in the process. Thank you James. And thank you TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center for your wonderful doctors and nurses who quickly took care of his injuries. pic.twitter.com/kKORfI24G1
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) April 22, 2018
“I was just trying to get myself out. I saw the opportunity and pretty much took it,” Shaw Jr. said in an interview with WBIR 10 News. “I don’t know if it has hit me yet as far as witnessing other people dying,” he continued. “It’s kind of, it shouldn’t have happened. When I was in the ambulance to hospital, I kept thinking that I’m going to wake up and it’s not going to be real. It is something out a movie. I’m OK though, but I hate that it happened.” (Read more from “29-Year-Old ‘Hero’ in Tennessee Waffle House Shooting Speaks” HERE)
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Accused Waffle House Shooter Used to Be a Sucker for ‘Love’
By The New York Post. Accused Waffle House shooter Travis Reinking used to be a self-professed sucker for “love.”
Speaking to a local newspaper in Salida, Colorado, last year — where he used to live — Reinking described the one thing in life that makes him happy.
“True love,” he said. “Just because it’s the best thing that can happen in life.”
The young man had been taking part in a “Word on the Street” column for the Mountain Mail back in January 2017, according to the newspaper. (Read more from “Accused Waffle House Shooter Used to Be a Sucker for ‘Love'” HERE)
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