tennessee waffle house shooting
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Trump Finally Reaches Out to Waffle House Hero James Shaw Jr. Almost a Month After Deadly Shooting
It’s been almost a month since James Shaw Jr., 29, snatched an assault rifle away from a gunman who opened fire at a Tennessee Waffle House, killing four people and injuring several others. Despite Shaw’s brave actions and the fact that he was nationally hailed as a hero, it was only on Monday that y’all’s…
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Mother of Young Woman Killed at Tennessee Waffle House Accepts Her College Diploma
The mother of a young woman senselessly gunned down at a Tennessee Waffle House in April accepted her daughter’s posthumous college diploma this weekend. Shirl Baker, the mother of 21-year-old DeEbony Groves, walked across the stage Saturday evening to receive her daughter’s degree in social work from Belmont University. “Almost two weeks ago, our community…
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Fundraisers for Tennessee Waffle House Hero, Victims of Shooting Raise More Than $100,000
Two separate GoFundMe campaigns, one raised to benefit the victims of the Waffle House shooting in Antioch, Tenn., and one started to benefit James Shaw Jr., the hero who wrestled the gun away from the suspected shooter, have both raised more than $100,000 in a span of mere hours. In the aftermath of the shooting,…
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Travis Reinking Is What Happens When Black People Are ‘Criminals’ and White People Are Allowed to Be Invisible
A few months ago, during a conversation on Facebook about one of the many mass shootings committed by a white man (I forget which one), the homie Sai Grundy wrote that (paraphrasing) one of the byproducts of the criminalization of blackness is that white people are often able to elude suspicion by virtue of their…
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Waffle House Shooting Suspect in Police Custody
Police apprehended the man accused of killing four people in a Nashville, Tenn., Waffle House, ending a widespread manhunt. On Monday afternoon the Nashville Police Department tweeted out photos of suspect Travis Reinking, who was captured in a wooded area in Nashville. As the New York Times notes, roughly 160 law enforcement officials were involved…
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29-Year-Old James Shaw Jr. Hailed as Hero for Stopping Tennessee Waffle House Shooting
James Shaw Jr. is a lot of things, an electrician, a father … and, as of now, a bonafide hero after he wrestled a gun away from an active shooter at a Tennessee Waffle House, putting an end to the gunman’s massacre. The early-morning Sunday shooting left four dead and several others injured. As The…