The man accused of opening fire at Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival, wounding three people, had obtained a concealed-weapon permit from the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office even though federal and state laws should have prevented him from having one.

Clinton Chad Grainger, 22, has been on a methadone program for drug addiction since he was 18 and also has a “history of anxiety and mental illness,” according to King County Superior Court booking documents. Federal and state law prohibits people with mental illness or drug addiction from obtaining a concealed-weapon permit.

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Grainger is accused of firing his gun during a fight during the popular Memorial Day Weekend festival. A single bullet passed through one man’s nasal passage, another man’s forearm, and finally lodged in a woman’s thigh.