A man was arrested Tuesday in the US after he entered the Colorado Supreme Court building overnight, opened fire inside the building and caused “significant damage” but no one was injured, Denver police said.

The incident began around 1 a.m. when two cars collided and one of the drivers threatened the other with a gun. Then, the police said, the same gunman shot through the window of the headquarters of the Supreme Court and entered the building, where at gunpoint he forced an unarmed security officer to give him access to other parts of the building, reports EFE. , quoted by Agerpres.

While police surrounded the area, the same person whose keys were stolen from the security guard entered the courtroom and fired a gun before finally calling 911 and voluntarily surrendering.

The incident comes two weeks after a Colorado court ruled former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ineligible to run in the state’s Republican primary. The court cited an attack by Trump sympathizers on the January 6, 2021, chapter and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which allows for a ban on holding elected public office in the case of people who participated in an insurrection. But it is still unclear whether the gesture of the person who opened fire in the courthouse is related to the decision of this court against Trump.

The Maine Supreme Court followed that decision with a similar ruling, but the final decision in the case is up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which the former Republican president sees as a new use of the justice system against him by modern-day Democrats. President Joe Biden to prevent him from running against the latter.