According to an unsettling report by local authorities, it appears a mass shooting was thwarted on the first night of this year’s Bass Canyon, an electronic music festival in Washington that attracts roughly 25,000 people.
Jonathan R. Moody, a 30-year-old man from Ephrata, was reportedly spotted in the parking lot outside the festival grounds at 9pm on Friday night inhaling an “unknown substance” from a balloon before loading and concealing two 9mm pistols around his waist.
Later, Moody is said to have approached Bass Canyon attendees to inquire when the festival would end and where people would exit.
When authorities were alerted of the suspicious activity, venue security disarmed and detained Moody outside the venue gates, police say. Moody was then arrested on suspicion of one count of possession of a dangerous weapon and one count of unlawful carrying or handling of a weapon.
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No one was injured, according to the report from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. You can read the report below.