Ten Dead in Toronto, Waffle Killer Caught
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Vol. 7, No. 109
Sidewalk Massacre: Witnesses described a horrific scene after a van drove down a sidewalk on the popular Yonge Street in Toronto yesterday, killing 10 people and injuring 15. The driver was taken into custody.
The white Ryder rental van had travelled more than a mile on the sidewalk. “One by one, one by one,” a told the NY Times. “Holy God, I’ve never seen such a sight before. I feel sick.”
When confronted by a police officer, the 25-year-old suspect repeatedly motioned as if he was aiming a gun and said, “Shoot me in the head.”
Amazingly, the officer did not shoot him.
Police did not immediately know the motive for the incident. Canada’s minister of public safety said, “On the basis of all available information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident.”
The Waffle Killer: Tennessee police yesterday found the Waffle House killer hiding in the woods within sight of his apartment building. A detective found 29-year-old Travis Reinking and captured him without trouble, even though Reinking had a gun in his backpack.
The arrest came as the result of a tip from someone who saw Reinking in the neighborhood.
Reinking is accused of using his AR-15 rifle to kill four people in a Nashville Waffle House restaurant. His father could also face charges for giving Travis’s guns back even though he was prohibited from possessing them after a previous arrest. He clearly has mental issues.
Dinner for Four: French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife arrived in Washington yesterday and promptly choppered off to a private dinner with President and Melania Trump at George Washington’s Mt. Vernon estate.
The two couples were led on a brief tour before they were served a dinner of Dover sole, pasta stuffed with lemon ricotta, and chocolate soufflé with cherry vanilla ice cream.
There’s good food in France, so having dinner is not the top of Macron’s agenda. He wants Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear deal that the President has threatened to scrap.
Trump declared the dinner “really fantastic” before returning to the White House. Fortunately, he did not claim to be a greater American president than George Washington.
Advise and Consent: CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination to be secretary of state squeaked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by just one vote after President Trump leaned on the wavering Sen. Rand Paul.
The nomination of Adm. Ronny Jackson, the president’s official doctor, appears to be in trouble after some digging into his record. Members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are examining some undisclosed allegations about excessive drinking and creating a hostile environment in the White House medical office.
Nation: Former President George HW Bush was taken to the hospital with a blood infection just two days after the weekend funeral of his wife Barbara. He is reported to be responding to treatment. Bush also has Parkinson’s disease.
The Royals: Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Windsor, gave birth to a boy yesterday, the third child for her and Prince William. Hours later she stepped outside with her husband and Prince William looking better than anyone has a right to look after having a baby. The whole family was home in time for dinner.
With the birth, the couple’s daughter Charlotte also made history. She will be the first royal female not to lose her place in line for the throne to a younger brother, but she’s still #4 so she doesn’t have much chance.
The Obit Page: Roy Hawthorne Sr., one of the last surviving Navajo code talkers from World War II has died at age 92. The code talkers spoke over the radio in their native language, confounding the Japanese. Hawthorne enlisted in the Marine Corps at 17 and became part of the legendary corps of radio operators who helped win the war in the Pacific.
More Stuff: Amazon, which has already developed ways to deliver packages inside your front door. For people who live in places where the goods might get swiped from the front porch, Amazon announced that it can now deliver to the trunk of your car or the back seat. The car has to be equipped with a bit of technology, but these technology companies already know everything about you so they might as well be in the back seat of your car as well.
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