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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Attorney: Waffle House shooter believed God commanded him

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Attorneys for a man who killed four people in a shooting at a Nashville Waffle House said Monday that Travis Reinking believed the restaurant patrons and employees were government agents whom he had been commanded by God to kill.

Reinking, 32, was naked save for a green jacket when he opened fire inside the restaurant on April 22, 2018. He fled, triggering a two-day manhunt, after a restaurant patron wrestled his assault-style rifle away from him.

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