BENTON, Ill. (AP) — An Army veteran who threatened a shooting rampage last year at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital has been ordered to spend a year and a day in federal prison.
A judge also sentenced 30-year-old Mark Harmon of Shawneetown on Monday to three years of supervised release after his prison term.
Harmon pleaded guilty in January to attempted possession of a firearm on federal property with the intent to commit a crime.
Police at the VA hospital in Marion arrested Harmon last October after he told a nurse by telephone that he was armed and was “going to fill that place with lead.”
Prosecutors say authorities found a loaded semiautomatic handgun, a magazine filled with 13 bullets and 13 loose rounds of ammunition in Harmon’s truck.