SWAT standoff with shots fired at Atlanta luxury hotel ends as barricaded suspect is apprehended by police

The Atlanta Police Department and SWAT teams responded to a Georgia luxury edifice successful downtown Atlanta connected Tuesday afternoon, aft an equipped fishy barricaded himself wrong and allegedly started shooting.

During a property convention astatine astir 5:15 p.m., Atlanta Police Department's Chief Darin Schierbaum and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens provided further accusation astir nan incident.

Schierbaum identified 70-year-old J. Stevens Berger arsenic nan suspect, saying he was suffering from a intelligence wellness situation and had an altercation pinch a edifice worker astatine astir 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Berger lived astatine nan edifice and was spotted during nan incident connected his pavilion wearing a reddish mask.

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The fishy is seen astatine nan pavilion of nan Four Seasons Hotel successful Atlanta. (WAGA)

Berger had entree to aggregate weapons, including knives and guns, constabulary said, and added they judge that he fired astatine slightest 15 shots.

"While nan efforts were underway, he began firing a weapon," Schierbaum said. "We judge he fired astatine slightest 3 different weapons; handguns, shotguns and rifles, that fired done nan walls."

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One witnesser told Fox News connection WAGA that nan incident felt for illustration thing retired of nan video crippled "Grand Theft Auto."

"We heard 10 shots. We walked outside, sewage everything connected camera – nan man throwing couches, shooting – very chaotic, very random," Khalil Hagans said. "This is Atlanta. This is not a existent place." 

Another witnesser told nan news position that constabulary prevented them from moving anyplace owed to nan progressive shooter.

"So, we looked up, and we was trying to look for him, and we seen him. We look astatine him for for illustration 5 seconds and adjacent point you cognize 'boom, boom, boom,' he starts shooting again. So, it was like, we ducked down here, and we conscionable watching him," said Jordan Hall. "It was for illustration we were successful nan mediate of a movie."

Police are responding to a barricaded fishy astatine nan Four Season Hotel successful Atlanta. (WAGA)

One Atlanta constabulary serviceman was injured pinch non-life-threatening injuries, constabulary said, which ordered a shelter-in-place aft nan shooting started. At slightest 2 different officers returned fire, constabulary said.

Police said that aggregate charges are expected to beryllium revenge against Berger, including aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

"We saw bravery, we saw an effort to sphere life," Schierbaum said.

A ample constabulary beingness is seen extracurricular nan hotel. (WAGA)

The update from constabulary came aft nan Atlanta Police Department confirmed that they were investigating a barricaded fishy astatine nan Four Seasons Hotel successful Midtown wherever location were reports of gunfire.

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In an update astatine astir 4:30 p.m., constabulary said that nan fishy was apprehended and successful custody, prompting a shelter-in-place bid to beryllium lifted.