On July 23, 2016, then 21-year-old Georgia man William Dakotah Gossett purchased a ticket to The Purge: Election Year.
Gossett, clad in heavy military fatigues despite a sweltering heat, also carried a sizable backpack as he wandered the Township Marketplace shopping area oustside the theater.
The young man has now pleaded guilty to the crime.
The film was then just beginning its fourth week in theaters.