Yuan Fang, 66, brought a high level of attention on Monday afternoon. As people gathered round the Senate building, Fang was threatening to “hurt himself through his actions” by jumping from the seventh floor of the Senate Building’s atrium in Washington D.C. Police managed to convince the man to give up his intentions.

Fang spoke only Mandarin and it was hard for the police to try to understand him and also make him understand them. He climbed onto a railing on Monday at 5:45 p.m. and it seems that after the discussions the police managed to have with him during the night made the man descend safely off the railing.

The man was from New York, but the police could talk to him only with the help of an intermediate translator. His actions weren’t clear enough, as he had remained quietly on the railing, warning that he would harm himself if anyone came close.

He left the seventh floor at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday and held the police’s attention for eight hours. Still, the police don’t know yet whether the man had come inside the building before. He had no gun, as he managed to pass security, so his intentions aren’t clear yet.

Fang was charged with disturbing the peace. After he descended the railing, he was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital to be given a psychiatric evaluation.