After a day on the run they have caught the shooter!
The man who killed four people at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee on Sunday has been arrested in an area behind his apartment following a 36-hour manhunt.
Travis Reinking, 29, was taken into custody at 1.07pm in a wooded area by members of the police, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron revealed at a press conference .
Aaron said Reinking was taken to the South Precinct, where he immediately requested a lawyer and refused to make a statement.
Reinking was taken to Nashville General Hospital to be checked out and has sine been booked on four counts of criminal homicide.
A picture released of Reinking following his arrest showed he had scratches in his arms and mud on his jeans after hiding out in the woods.
Travis Reinking, 29, has finally been captured after he allegedly murdered four people at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee on Sunday.
Reinking was covered in bloody scratches and mud after hiding out in the woods following the early morning shooting
The Metro Nashville Police Department tweeted just after 2pm ET that Travis Reinking is in custody and had been ‘arrested moments ago’
Reinking has been on the run since Sunday when he opened fire at a Nashville-area Waffle House – killing four and injuring several others.
Waffle House cook Taurean C. Sanderlin, 29, Joe Perez, 20, Akilah Dasilva, 23, Deebony Groves, 21, were all killed in the attack.
A SWAT team, bomb squad, police dogs, and helicopters have all been on hand during the nearly two-day search for Reinking.
Officers had focused their search efforts on overgrown wooded areas in Antioch and south Nashville after Reinking was spotted running into the woods near his apartment complex.
But Reinking would ultimately be arrested in a wooded area less than one mile away from his own apartment.
Authorities revealed that Reinking was captured following a citizen’s tip on Monday afternoon.
One person reported seeing a man who matched Reinking’s description near 5000 Mountain Springs Dr, which is where he lives.
Lydia French said she saw Reinking look ‘shocked’ and ‘disoriented’ and that he saw her call 911.
‘When he seen me on the phone, he kept looking, real nervous,’ she told the Tennessean.
Police gather on a road along a wooded area where Reinking was captured on Monday
Reinking would ultimately be arrested in a wooded area behind his own apartment and less than one mile from the shooting
The citizen reported that the man had gone through a construction site behind the apartment complex and into a wooded area.
Authorities arrived at the scene in undercover cars and one officer spotted Reinking in front of him, Lt Carlos Lara said during the…