Father of Waffle House shooting suspect faces weapons charge
Source: Associated Press
Updated 5:29 pm CDT, Thursday, March 14, 2019
PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — The father of a man accused of killing four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee last year has been charged with unlawful delivery of a firearm in Illinois, a prosecutor announced Thursday.
State's Attorney Stewart J. Umholtz said Jeffrey Reinking was charged in Tazewell County Circuit Court.
Reinking's son, Travis Reinking, has been held without bond on first-degree murder charges since the April 2018 attack in Nashville. Authorities said Reinking was wearing only a green jacket when he opened fire at the restaurant with an assault-style rifle. Police credited a quick-thinking patron with wrestling the rifle away from the gunman and likely preventing more deaths.
Jeffrey Reinking, 55, is accused of knowingly giving an AR-15 rifle to 30-year-old Travis, despite his son having been a patient in the mental health unit of a Peoria, Illinois, hospital.
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