Father of Nashville Waffle House Shooter Gets 18 Months

Travis Reinking (C) reacts as the verdict is read during day five of Reinking's murder trial at the Justice A.A. Birch Building in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 4, 2022. Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP, Pool

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.