Waffle House Shooting
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1 min readJun 28, 2018
A shooting at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville, killed four people on April 22.
The shooter, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, was disarmed when an unarmed man rushed him and wrestled away the weapon.
That man, James Shaw Jr., 29, has been hailed as a hero for likely saving the lives of many others. “I figured if I was going to die, he was going to have to work for it,” he said.
Shaw (pictured) set up a GoFundMe to raise money for the victims. It raised over $225,000.
The shooter was apprehended the following day after a 36 hour manhunt.
Akilah Desilva, 23
DeEbony Groves, 21
Joe Perez, 20
Taurean Sanderlin, 29