Floyd Ray Roseberry, threatened to arrange an explosion in the center of Washington, was mentally ill. Recently, his mother died. This is reported by ABC News.
The incident occurred on August 19, at 9.45 local time. The 49-year-old Rozberry, who suffers from schizophrenia, drove up to the Congress library on his car without license plates. The man said that in the car there is an explosive and he is ready to arrange a subsection.
“I am here in Washington, DC, there is a capitol or type of one. There is still a capitol. The police arrive. I’m trying to reach Joe Bayden,” the man said through the broadcast in the Facebook Live application.
Also Roseberry spoke with anti-government slogans, commented on recent events in Afghanistan, gave his assessment of the situation in health care and in the army. The attacker called on Baiden to resign, in return he was ready to leave his car.
“You will leave your post, I will leave this car. Just get out and talk to me, Joe. America is tired of all this. I’m not the one who explodes this bomb, Joe. You are going to provoke me on it,” he announced His requirements Roseberry.
The broadcast was interrupted because Facebook deleted the page a man. It is known that he was signed on the page of the former US President Donald Trump, as well as the White Lives Matter group.
All this time, the police led the negotiations with a man. The zone around the pickup was hooked, people were evacuated from the nearest buildings, police special forces arrived. However, Rozberry decided to voluntarily surrender, coming out of the car at about 14:30 local time. Suppers, examining the car, did not find explosives.
In conversation with the Reutres Agency, the former wife of the attacker Crystal Roseberry said that the former husband was diagnosed with schizophrenia, also in the past he repeatedly threatened with her weapon. “He is crazy. Several times he guided me and my sister weapon,” the woman said. According to her, she divorced him eight years ago.