Lollapalooza Employee Busted After Allegedly Faking A Mass Shooting Threat

An 18-year-old Lollapalooza music festival security guard has been charged with a felony after prosecutors say she made a false mass shooting threat toward attendees last Friday. Officials say they traced two messages to Janya B. Williams, who allegedly made posts that described “150 targets” and a “massive shooting” at the 100,000-person capacity event in Chicago’s Grant Park, the Chicago Tribune reported. Advertisement Prosecutors said she owned up to drafting the messages because she hoped to “leave work early.” Williams initially sent her supervisor one of the messages using the phone app TextNow, which caused festival officials to contact the… Read Full Article