Federal agents arrested a man in Arizona who allegedly planned a mass shooting during a Bad Bunny concert held in Atlanta last May.
The man, identified as Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was indicted earlier this week after being arrested last month for an alleged plot while crossing into New Mexico on the day the concert was scheduled to take place
According to Federal Court records, Mark Adams Prieto tried to recruit an FBI agent and collaborator and confessed that he allegedly hoped to provoke a race war before the presidential election, as he planned to kill mainly black people, Jews and Muslims.
“We’re going to fight back now, and every whitey will be the enemy across the whole country,” Prieto allegedly told the undercover agent.
He also wanter to Confederate flags at the scene while shouting ““KKK all the way,” and “no mercy, no quarter.”
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An undercover agent “betrayed” the man before carrying out the attack at the Bad Bunny concert
It was a source Prieto tried to recruit for his plot who notified the FBI. The source also used another undercover agent in his investigation that Prieto also tried to recruit, according to an affidavit obtained by NBC News. Prieto allegedly brought in semiautomatic rifles using cash or trades to avoid federal gun regulators.
Those same weapons were allegedly hidden near where Bad Bunny’s concert was going to be held in Atlanta before traveling to the city, but the man was arrested when he was heading to the concert. Adams Prieto was planning to murder “as many black people as he could.”
The 58-year-old was charged with possession of an unregistered firearm, firearms trafficking, and transferring a firearm for use in a hate crime. If convicted, he could face up to 40 years in prison.
