Lollapalooza security guard faked mass shooting threat 'to leave work early.'

A security worker at Lollapalooza in Chicago wanted to leave work early, so she made a fake post threatening a mass shooting, according to news reports and court documents.

According to one of the court documents, Jayna Williams, an 18 year old employee of Andy Frain, made accusations of a mass shooting happening at the festival so she could leave work early.

Williams has been charged with making a false terrorism threat, a felony, according to court filings.

A timeline of events is as follows was provided by USA today:

"At 2:48 p.m. on July 29, Williams used the texting app TextNow to send her supervisor a text.

"Mass shooting at 4pm location Lollapalooza," one text read, claiming the shooters had 150 targets.

Williams'
supervisor immediately told other company supervisors, who told the
Chicago Police Department Command Post. Both Chicago police and the FBI
Joint Counterterrorism Task Force were told about the threat, one
document says." Williams then told her sister she saw a Facebook threat about the mass shooting, which her supervisor requested she send a screen shot of to him for verification. Ms. Williams then made up a new FB draft page under the name of Ben Scott, and took a picture of the page and sent it to her supervisor.

The FBI got involved with a task force and was able to trace her actions using IP addresses and an Apple iCloud account.

Ms. Williams had a bail hearing where bail was set at $50,000 and with electronic monitoring.

No one was injured at Lollapalooza as a result of this fake threat, nor were there any evacuations of the concert.