PEKIN, Ill.—An Illinois man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of illegally giving his son a rifle he later used in a 2018 shooting that killed four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee.
A judge last May convicted Jeffrey Reinking of illegal delivery of a firearm to a person who had been treated for mental illness within the past five years.
Tazewell County Chief Judge Chris Doscotch, in sentencing the 59-year-old Reinking on Friday, gave him 90 days to prepare a likely appeal before he must report to begin serving his sentence, the (Peoria) Journal Star reported….