A man who entered the U.S. Capitol with a handgun in his possession and took a tour of the building faces weapons charges, police said Thursday. The 27-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested Tuesday after Capitol police officers found him leaving the Library of Congress and walking toward his car,

The U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department originally spoke to the man in a hotel on Tuesday morning. ABC reports they were responding to an alert from the Carlisle Police Department about a man with a gun who had expressed suicidal ideations on social media and was headed to Washington.

A Massachusetts man carrying a handgun in his waistband was arrested this week shortly after receiving a tour of the Capitol, and an officer who performed a security search and let the man in the building has been suspended pending an investigation,

U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday said they suspended an officer who let a man with a gun into the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday.

A man who entered the U.S. Capitol with a handgun in his possession and took a tour of the building faces weapons charges, police said Thursday.