A judge in Island County Superior Court ordered a man who fired a shot into a South Whidbey hotel room wall to surrender his firearms, according to court records.

Judge Christon Skinner authorized a temporary extreme risk protection order for 56-year-old Rama D. Keating on Dec. 20.

A deputy with the Island County Sheriff’s Office petitioned for the extreme risk protective order after a Dec. 19 incident at a Freeland hotel.

Keating called police from his room and reported that a prowler was trying to break in and that he heard people talking inside his closet. He advised that he had a .38-caliber pistol and had fired a warning shot, the report states.

The deputy arrived and told Keating to put down his gun and unbarricaded the door. Keating complied, telling the deputy that he had fired a shot into the bathroom wall but didn’t believe he had hit any of “them,” the deputy’s report states.

The bullet went through the wall and into a field behind the hotel. Nobody was injured.

The deputy noted that he had pulled Keating over a couple of days previously when he was driving slowly on the shoulder of the highway with his hazard lights on.

Keating told the deputy at the time that he was low on gas, but later admitted he thought people were chasing him.

The deputy noted that Keating had eight other guns in addition to the pistol he had fired.

The Island County Sheriff’s Office, the Oak Harbor Police Department and the Navy obtained a number of extreme risk protective orders this year for men with apparent mental health issues who had acted recklessly with guns or made threats to harm themselves or others.