Waffle House customer on why he rushed shooter: 'He was going to have to work to kill me'
by from on (#3NEDF)

Moments before the first shot, James Shaw Jr. was watching a Waffle House employee wash dishes, stacking them higher and higher. When the first shot was fired, Shaw thought the tower of plates had come crashing down, he would later recount at a news conference. At 3:25 a.m. Sunday, police cars stormed toward the restaurant in the Nashville, Tennessee, neighbourhood of Antioch.