After being called to the 33rd floor of the Four Seasons Midtown on Tuesday morning about a disturbance, the resident manager of the condominium complex above the hotel entered the hallway and said he saw a gun raised at him. He quickly turned away but realized it was someone he knew, he said. A 70-year-old resident, who the manager said was known for having mental health issues, weapons in his unit and Nazi paraphernalia, was at the end of the hallway screaming, pointing a gun at him and “rattling off all kinds of crazy,” he told 911 in a call obtained Wednesday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The manager then told the 911 operator that he heard the man order him not to come this way. “I don’t want to hurt anybody,” the manager said the suspect told him. Jay Steven Berger was eventually taken into custody that afternoon after he fired more than a dozen gunshots from inside his condo during a standoff that resulted in injuries to himself and a SWAT officer, Atlanta police Chief Darin Schierbaum said after the hours-long ordeal ended.
Berger is facing charges of aggravated assault but remains in the hospital. SWAT Officer Jonathan Caporaso sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the incident, which the GBI said might have been from shrapnel. A woman called police around 10 a.
m. saying a resident pointed a gun at the manager. He then got on the phone and told 911 that another resident had reported a mess in the hallway on the 33rd floor, so he went to chec.
