PEKIN, Ill. – The father of convicted Waffle House shooter Travis Reinking has, himself, been convicted.
A Tazewell County judge Friday convicted Jeffrey Reinking, 58, on a felony charge of Unlawful Delivery of a Firearm to a Mental Patient.
Reinking gave his son Travis some previously confiscated weapons — one of which was used to commit the 2018 shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee that killed four people.
25 News reports defense attorneys claimed Jeffrey Reinking didn’t know Travis was being treated at UnityPoint Health Methodist Medical Center prior to the shooting, and had been in a mental facility before that.
It’s against state law to give a gun to someone who’s been treated at a mental facility within five years.
Jeffrey Reinking could get up to three years in prison when he’s sentenced next month.
Travis Reinking is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
