FILE - In this Tuesday, April 24, 2018, file photo, James Shaw Jr. waves to the crowd and legislators inside the Tennessee House chambers at the Tennessee State House in Nashville, Tenn., as he is honored for disarming a shooter inside an area Waffle House. On Sunday, April 29, 2018, the Nashville Predators gave the city a chance to give Shaw a standing ovation. Shaw met with Nashville coach Peter Laviolette before Game 2 Sunday night of the Predators' Western Conference semifinal hockey game with Winnipeg and he was given his own personalized jersey. (Larry McCormack/The Tennessean via AP, File)

Trump talks with man hailed as hero in Waffle House shooting

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has spoken with a Tennessee man who wrestled an assault-style rifle away from a gunman at a Waffle House.

White House spokesman Raj Shah says Trump and 29-year-old James Shaw Jr. spoke Monday. Shah had no other details about the conversation.

Shaw and a friend were dining at a Waffle House in Nashville on April 22 when a gunman wearing only a jacket opened fire outside with an AR-15 rifle before storming the restaurant. Four people were killed. Shaw and three others were injured.

Shaw has been hailed as a hero for wrestling the rifle away and throwing it over a counter.

The suspect, 29-year-old Travis Reinking, was apprehended the next day. Reinking faces charges of criminal homicide and attempted criminal homicide.

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