While the bomb threat at G3 turned out to be a false alarm, new details have emerged surrounding the terrifying and unsettling event.
Contrary to initial reports, a bomb threat was not phoned into 911 or to conference organizers, as some have speculated. Instead, 33-year-old Timothy Mixon, an attendee at the event, ran up on stage before a showing of John MacArthur’s The Essential Church and shouted, “There’s a bomb in the building!”
Mixon escaped but was found outside, apprehended by security staff, and turned over to local law enforcement. He was booked into the Clayton County jail, where he faces serious charges.
According to the Georgia penal code 16-10-28.,
A person commits the offense of transmitting a false public alarm when he or she knowingly and intentionally transmits in any manner a report or warning knowing at the time of the transmission that there is no reasonable ground for believing such report or warning and when the report or warning relates to:
(1) A destructive device or hazardous substance is located in such a place that its explosion, detonation, or release would endanger human life or cause injury or damage to property;.
…a person convicted of a violation of subsection (b) of this Code section shall be punished as for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature and upon conviction for a second or subsequent violation of subsection (b) of this Code section shall be guilty of a felony and punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years, by a fine of not less than $5,000.00, or both
It does not appear Mixon has any visible or publicly facing social media accounts, at least any that we could find and verify.
After the conference center was evacuated, multiple agencies responded to the terroristic threat. Bomb technicians cleared the building, aided by explosive detecting dogs and armed with a total Containment Vessel, which they thankfully never had to use.
Sources have told us that Mixon was “mentally disturbed” and allegedly snapped after seeing someone in a hijab, either in person or in a video clip, triggering his PTSD. Conference organizers are not pressing charges, but given the nature of the threat, it is out of their hands.
