Waffle House Shooter Receives Life in Prison Without Parole

Waffle House Shooter Receives Life in Prison Without Parole
Travis Reinking (C), reacts as the verdict is read during day five of Reinking's murder trial at the Justice A.A. Birch Building in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 4, 2022. Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—A man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018 received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on Saturday.

Jurors handed down the penalty for 33-year-old Travis Reinking after hearing about two hours of testimony from family members of the four people killed. They sobbed and trembled as they talked about their loved ones and how losing them continues to fracture their lives more than three years later. Jurors had the option of giving Reinking the chance for parole after serving 51 years in prison.