A safety guard on the annual Lollapalooza music competition in Chicago is accused of fabricating the specter of a mass taking pictures in an try to get out of labor early.
Safety guard Janya Williams has been charged with utilizing an app at 2:50 p.m. Friday to ship a menace to her supervisor warning there could be a “Mass taking pictures at 4pm location Lollapalooza. We now have 150 targets,” in accordance with the Chicago Solar-Occasions.
She adopted up by telling her supervisor that her sister had seen one other mass-shooting menace for Lollapalooza, this time on Fb.
The supervisor requested for a screenshot of the menace. Prosecutors say Ms. Williams created a faux Fb profile beneath the identify “Ben Scott”, and wrote that there could be a “Large taking pictures at Lollapalooza Grant Park 6:00 p.m.”
Investigators traced each the faux Fb web page and the texted menace of violence again to Ms. Williams.
Beneath questioning, she advised police that she despatched the message and created the faux publish with the intention to “go away work early,” in accordance with prosecutors.
She’s been charged with making a false terrorism menace, which is a felony.
