One of the four people killed inside a Nashville-area Waffle House Sunday morning when a suspect started shooting was from the Austin-area.
Twenty-year-old Joe Perez died when suspected gunman Travis Reinking, 29, came storming into the Waffle House with an assault rifle.
On Sunday afternoon, Perez’s mother posted a photo of her son on Facebook with the caption: “Please say a prayer for my family for today is the hardest day of my life. Me, my husband and sons are broke right now with this loss. Our lives are forever shattered.”
Perez was a former Hays Consolidated Independent School District student. The district says he attended school in the district until his sophomore year.
Four people died and another four were injured. A customer managed to wrestle the gun away from Reinking but he managed to get away before authorities arrived.
Our sister station WKRN reports the other people killed were: DeEbony Groves, 21; Akilah Dasilva, 23; and Taurean C. Sanderlin, 29.
Reinking was arrested Monday morning after a manhunt. Police say the suspect had a loaded semi-automatic gun, .45-caliber ammunition, a flashlight and a holster in a backpack when he was arrested.
