Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and Police Chief Darin Schierbaum provide additional information on Tuesday's barricade situation, gunfire at the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown. (Credit: WANF via NNS) The Atlanta Police Department and SWAT teams responded to a Georgia luxury hotel in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon, after an armed suspect barricaded himself inside and allegedly started shooting. During a press conference at approximately 5:15 p.
m., Atlanta Police Department's Chief Darin Schierbaum and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens provided additional information about the incident. Schierbaum identified 70-year-old J.
Stevens Berger as the suspect, saying he was suffering from a mental health crisis and had an altercation with a hotel employee at approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Berger lived at the hotel and was spotted during the incident on his balcony wearing a red mask. GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY, DEMANDS JURY TRIAL The suspect is seen at the balcony of the Four Seasons Hotel in Atlanta. (WAGA) Berger had access to multiple weapons, including knives and guns, police said, and added they believe that he fired at least 15 shots.
"While the efforts were underway, he began firing a weapon," Schierbaum said. "We believe he fired at least three different weapons; handguns, shotguns and rifles, that fired through the walls." WATCH: One witness told Fox News affiliate WAGA that the incident felt like something out of the video game "Grand Theft Auto.
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