A man from Illinois has received an 18-month prison sentence for illegally providing his son with a rifle.
The son, Travis, later used the weapon in a 2018 shooting that killed four people at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jeffrey Reinking was convicted by a judge in May of illegally delivering a firearm to a person who had undergone mental health treatment within the past five years. The judge gave Reinking 90 days to prepare an appeal before he must report to begin serving his sentence.
Prosecutors argued that Reinking knew his son had undergone mental health treatment in 2016 when police responded to a pharmacy parking lot in Morton where his son reported that Taylor Swift was stalking him and had hacked his cellphone.
Reinking’s attorney argued that his client was not aware of his son’s mental health issues.
Reinking’s son, Travis Reinking, had his firearm owner’s identification card revoked by the Illinois State Police and therefore could not legally possess guns within the state.
He surrendered his guns to his father, who later returned them to him before the Waffle House shooting.
The AR-15 assault-style rifle that he used in the attack was one of the guns his father returned to him.
Travis Reinking was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in February 2022 after being convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and other charges.
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