MIAMI - A grand jury in Arizona indicted this week a man who planned to conduct a mass shooting during Bad Bunny`s concert in Atlanta with the intention of "inciting a race war" ahead of the 2024 presidential elections, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed.
The man, identified as Mark Adams Prieto, faces charges of "Firearms Trafficking, Transfer of a Firearm for Use in a Hate Crime, and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm." According to the FBI's affidavit, he was being surveilled due to alarming comments that had been escalating for years, culminating in efforts to carry out a violent attack in a mass event. He had chosen Bad Bunny's show at State Farm Arena on the third weekend of May.
