Police in the US state of Tennessee on Monday captured the suspected gunman who killed four people in a shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, America's country music capital.
"Murder suspect Travis Reinking is in custody. Arrested moments ago," Nashville's police department tweeted.
The 29-year-old was captured following an expansive manhunt, as authorities scoured an area around the shooter's home and the site of the shooting in which four were killed and two others wounded early Sunday.
Police reports, released on Sunday, reveal Reinking had a history of delusions, including that singer Taylor Swift stalked him.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department wrote on Twitter that the shooting occurred in an area southeast of the city at 3:25 am (0825 GMT) Sunday local time.
Three of the victims died at the scene and a fourth at a hospital, while two others people were being treated for injuries, police said.
"A patron wrestled away the gunman's rifle. He was nude & fled on foot. He is a white man with short hair," the department said.
Having twice identified the shooter as "nude," police later tweeted that the gunman had shed his coat and was last seen wearing black pants but no shirt.
Police said that "murder warrants are now being drafted against Travis Reinking," a 29-year-old from Morton, Illinois who was earlier identified as a person of interest.
Authorities confirmed that Taurean Sanderlin, 29, Joe Perez, 20, and DeEbony Groves, 21, were killed at the restaurant.
The fourth victim, 23-year-old Akilah Dasilva, died at a hospital.
Gunman's past
A picture emerged of the accused gunman as someone who suffered from mental health problems for months and may have held anti-government views, but who was able to thwart law enforcement efforts to restrict his access to guns.
"We have a man who has exhibited significant instability," Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said at a news conference prior to the arrest.
Reinking was arrested at the White House in July 2017, when he entered a restricted area of the presidential grounds, according to police.
He had demanded to see Donald Trump and had declared himself a "sovereign citizen," a designation used by anti-government extremists, according to The Tennessean newspaper.
After the White House incident, police rescinded Reinking's firearms authorization in the Midwestern state of Illinois, where he lived at the time.
They seized his four weapons, including the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used in the Tennessee shooting, and handed them to his father, who later returned them to his son, according to police.
Reinking recently had been fired from a job at a construction crane company for exhibiting signs of paranoia, according to The Tennessean.
Family members had reported Reinking's mental health challenges to police, including his belief that singer Taylor Swift was stalking him, The New York Times reported.
Aaron confirmed that Reinking "exhibited mental instability over many months," but said investigators did not have a motive for the attack.
The pre-dawn shooting claimed the lives of four people and wounded two others.
