Metro Davidson County police search the apartment complex where Waffle House shooting suspect, Travis Reinking, reportedly lives near Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. April 22, 2018. REUTERS/Harrison McClary
(Reuters) - Two years before police say Travis Reinking fatally shot four people in a Waffle House in Nashville, he struggled with delusions that the singer Taylor Swift was hacking his phone and threatened to kill himself, according to police records.
The 2016 episode in a drugstore parking lot in Morton, a village in central Illinois, was the first of several known police encounters captured in incident reports, which were obtained by local news media outlets and seen by Reuters after Sunday's shooting in the Tennessee capital.
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