Taylor Swift went deep at her concert on the one year anniversary of her win in her sexual assault trial … saying how important it is that victims be believed. Taylor was performing Tuesday night at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa and began…
Showing posts with label Believed. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018
Travis Reinking, Waffle House Shooting Suspect, Once Believed Taylor Swift Was Stalking Him
Travis Reinking is a wanted man.
And, by many recent accounts, Travis Reinking is also a mentally troubled man.
The 29-year old is the main suspect in a horrific shooting that took place late last week, one in which Reinking allegedly opened fire with an AR-15 and killed four people at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee.
Many others at the scene were wounded in the attack and transported to a local hospital.
In a Tweet Monday, the Metro Nashville Police Department said the following about this incident and this search:
“MNPD officers, to include SWAT, have continued the search for Travis Reinking in the Antioch area overnight. There have been no credible sightings. The search will continue.
“All schools in the area have been cleared by officers. He was last seen Sun morn behind his apt complex.”
While all able bodies in the area are looking for Travis Reinking, a disturbing profile of the man has emerged online.
It has quite the unusual and spotted history.
In July of 2017, he breached a White House security barrier and said he wanted to meet President Donald Trump.
Reinking told a Secret Service officer at the time that he was “sovereign citizen” who had a “right to inspect the grounds,” according to a Metropolitan Police Department incident report dated July 7.
Prior to this bizarre trespassing incident, documents obtained by CNN from the sheriff’s office in Tazewell County, Illinois indicate that Reinking was once described by police as exhibiting “delusional” behavior.
“Travis is hostile toward police and does not recognize police authority. Travis also possesses several firearms,” an officer wrote in a May 2016 incident report.
This report was penned because Reinking’s parents had called emergency services to say their son though Taylor Swift was stalking him, and he had made comments about killing himself.
Wait…what was that about Taylor Swift?!?
On May 27, 2016, a Tazewell County Sheriff’s deputy met Reinking and his parents in a drug store parking lot after the latter pair had phoned for assistance, according to authorities.
A paramedic told the responding officer that Reinking believed that Swift was harassing him by stalking and hacking his phone.
This is what an office at the time wrote:
“Travis believed everyone including his own family and the police are involved. Travis stated he did not want to hurt Taylor Swift or anyone else, he only wanted the harassment to stop.”
Reinking was candid about what he believed to be taking place.
He told the cop that the harassment started a few weeks earlier when Swift hacked his Netflix account and told him to meet her at a Dairy Queen.
He then told the officer that when he showed up… she ran off and vanished.
It would be very easy to laugh or scoff at this claim.
But it’s far harder to do so when you consider that Reinking just reportedly killed four people with a machine gun he likely purchased legally.
About a year after this incident, police were called to deal with Reinking again after someone said he came out of his apartment wearing a dress and holding a rifle.
Shortly after Reinking spoke to police about Swift, a group of policemen convinced him to check into a hospital for a mental evaluation.
But it’s unclear what came of this.
“At this point, the young man could be anywhere and whether he might try to return home is a distinct possibility, so our officers are definitely on alert,” Tazewell County Sheriff Robert Huston said Sunday in a news conference.
We’ll keep readers updated on this situation as more news breaks.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Christina Grimmie: Killer Believed She Was His "Soul Mate"
The case involving Kevin James Loilbl and his victim is closed.
On June 10th, Loibl approached 22-year-old Christina Grimmie while she was signing autographs after her Orlando concert.
Armed with two handguns, ammunition and a hunting knife, Loibl shot Grimmie before being tackled to the ground by her older brother, Marcus.
Loibl then turned the gun on himself.
According to police reports obtained by CNN, family members said that Loibl had “no history of mental illness,” but did live “like a hermit.”
Because he had “an aversion to light,” the St. Petersburg, FL resident would cover his bedroom windows with tin foil and heavy curtain.
Nor did the 27-year-old have a criminal record. However, police were called to Loibl’s father’s home twice in 2013 and 2014 because of a domestic dispute between him and his father’s girlfriend.
No charges were ever pressed.
One gentleman, Cory Dennington, described himself to police as possibly Loibl’s “only friend in the world.” The two had known each other for 15 years.
Dennington’s statements were crucial to the case, since he gave police background on Loibl’s behavior and his actions leading up to the murder.
Dennington noticed that his friend had “become fixated” on The Voice contestant over the last year or so.
Loibl told Dennighton that “he watched everything having to do with her,” spending “most of his waking hours watching Christina on YouTube as well as constantly monitoring her social media accounts.”
What’s strange is that Loibl himself did not have an account on any platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc).
Though an athiest, Loibl had allegedly told Dennington that Grimmie’s faith changed the way he saw religion and “helped him to see the world in a different way.”
Loibl had reportedly told Dennington that if there was indeed a God, “he has seen it in her.”
When Loibl wasn’t working at a local Best Buy, the was on the computer in his room, family members told police.
At work, Loibl would be in the back, so that he wasn’t interacting with customers. Loibl’s supervisor, Luke Dahl, described him as “socially awkward” and “detached.”
Prior to the murder, Loibl underwent an extreme makeouver. He lost fifty pounds, had Lasik Surgery, got hair implants and whitened his teeth – all for Grimmie, Dennington recalled.
Dennington grew concerned about his friend’s obsession with Grimmie, and tried to talk rationally to him.
Loibl was furious, and refused to believe that his plan to meet and fall in love with Grimmie would never work.
In fact, he referred to the singer as his “soul mate.”
In the days before the murder, Loibl returned a few magazines to Dennington at work.
“I love you brother,” he told Dennigton, adding that he “was tired and ready to ascend.”
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