PEKIN, Ill. — The father of a man accused of killing four people at a Tennessee Waffle House is facing a weapons charge in Illinois.
Jeffrey Reinking was charged in Tazewell County Circuit Court on Thursday with unlawful delivery of a firearm.
Travis Reinking has been held without bond since the April 22 attack in Nashville. Authorities say Reinking was wearing only a green jacket when he opened fire at the Waffle House with an assault-style rifle. Police credit a quick-thinking restaurant patron with wrestling the rifle away from the gunman and likely preventing more deaths.
Jeffrey Reinking is accused of knowingly giving an AR-15 rifle to his 30-year-old son despite his having been a patient in the mental health unit of Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria.
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Reinking has posted bond and is scheduled for an April 25 arraignment. Telephone calls to his lawyer wasn't immediately returned.