Deputies with the Grant County Sheriff's Office believe a mass shooting was avoided at the Gorge Amphitheater on Friday night.
FILE - In this May 26, 2013 file photo, fans attend a concert during the Sasquatch Festival at the Gorge Ampitheatre near George, Wash. On concert weekends, the Gorge Amphitheater becomes the largest community in rural Grant County in central Washington. Live Nation, the facility owner, wants to improve and expand the scenic venue, upsetting local residents who who fear increased traffic, crowds, and other issues that often accompany concerts at the Gorge.
At around 9 p.m. on Friday, deputies were notified by citizens and security of a man in the parking lot, inhaling something from a balloon and loading two 9mm pistols from the trunk of his car.The man, later identified as 30-year-old Jonathan R. Moody of Ephrata, asked concertgoers what time the concert was ending and where people were going to be exiting.
The Gorge Amphitheater was hosting “Bass Canyon,” an electronic dance music festival with nearly 25,000 people attending. Moody was detained by security outside of the venue, where he was disarmed of his two loaded pistols.No one was injured.
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