A man is believed to have shot himself at a Capitol Heights Comfort Inn early Sunday morning as a Prince George’s County SWAT team waited outside the hotel, police said.
Police received a call from the now-deceased man’s family around 9:40 a.m. Saturday. The family member said the man intended to harm himself and provided the room number.
When police arrived, they knocked on the man’s hotel room door, but retreated when he fired a shot through the door, police said. The officers called for an emergency barricade and waited for support to arrive.
The SWAT team waited outside the hotel until around 2 a.m., when they made an attempt to get into the room in which the man had barricaded himself.
When police entered the room, they found the man dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
The man was not identified.
