Unsealed documents identify man behind arson, shooting at Knoxville Planned Parenthood

[Nevilledog]

https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/10/31/unsealed-documents-identify-man-behind-arson-shooting-at-knoxville-planned-parenthood/

Two weeks after traveling to the U.S. Capitol to participate in the Jan. 6 insurrection, a Tennessee man fired into the door of a Planned Parenthood clinic under construction in Knoxville. Less than a year later, he burned the clinic down.

Federal court documents unsealed Monday identify Mark Thomas Reno as the man authorities say is responsible for targeting the Knoxville Health Center.

Reno was indicted earlier this year on charges he fired shots at the John J. Duncan Federal office building in downtown Knoxville on July 3. His connection to the violence against the reproductive health clinic was not made public at the time.

Reno died Aug. 15 after suffering a “medical episode” in jail, court records show. He was 63.

Ashley Coffield, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, on Monday thanked federal law enforcement agencies and the Knoxville Fire Department for their work investigating the incidents.

Coffield also drew a line from violent rhetoric by elected leaders to the acts of violence that, in this instance, targeted a clinic providing abortions and reproductive health care.

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Why was this guy out of custody????

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. He WAS in custody. It says "medical episode in jail". . . . nt

[Nevilledog]

2. He died after he was finally arrested.

They arson and shootings happened over time more than a year after January 6th.

He was a very dangerous crime spree.