The man who claimed to have bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hours-long standoff.
Capitol Police report that suspects 49-year old Floyd Ray Roseberry surrendered and was “safely taken into custody”.
Ray Roseberry, who was streaming on Facebook Live while talking about Joe Biden and revolution from a truck during an active bomb threat investigation near the Library of Congress.
Police evacuated a number of buildings near the US Capitol on Thursday morning in response to the threat and negotiated with the suspect for “peaceful resolution” to the incident, The Associated Press reports.
Authorities found that the suspect was posting videos from his truck “He gave up, did not resist, and our folks were able to take him into custody,” , U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said. “We don’t know what his motives are at this time.”
Before he did, Tom Manger, the Capitol police chief, said in a news conference that, around 9:15 a.m., a man in a black pickup truck drove on the sidewalk near the Library of Congress. The driver told the responding officer that he had a bomb and the officer said the man had what appeared to be a detonator in his hand. “We immediately evacuated the nearby building,” Manger said. Police have not identified Roseberry, but his name is attached to the Facebook page from which he streamed the live videos.
“We don’t know what his motives are at this time,” Manger said during a news conference. “This really is an ongoing situation.”
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