Sometimes, following a shooting, the media interviews neighbors who are shocked that a person who seemed so normal could have carried out such an act. That’s not the case when it comes to Travis Reinking, who made it abundantly clear that he was precisely the kind of unstable person who (if properly armed) could shoot up a waffle house in Tennessee. Four people were killed in the shooting. The shooter was finally aprehended after a massive manhunt.

+ “It feels selfish. I was just trying to get myself out. I saw the opportunity and pretty much took it.” The 29-year-old hero from Waffle House shooting: ‘I saw the opportunity and I took it.'”

+ After James Shaw Jr risked his life to save others, he set up a site to raise money for the victims of the attack.