On April 22, 2018, 20-year-old Joe Rene Perez Jr. was killed in a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee. Perez was a customer who was shot and died in the restaurant’s parking lot. Three other people were also killed: employee Taurean C. Sanderlin in the parking lot, and DeEbony Groves and Akilah DaSilva inside the restaurant. The shooter used an AR-15 style rifle and wounded several others before a customer, James Shaw Jr., wrestled the weapon away and stopped the attack.

The shooter fled, triggering a 34-hour manhunt that ended with his capture. He was identified as Travis Reinking and was later charged with four counts of first-degree murder and additional offenses. The defense raised an insanity claim citing severe schizophrenia; at trial a jury found him guilty on all counts and he was sentenced to life without parole. Reinking’s father was also later convicted for unlawfully providing the firearm to his son.