Latino male from Idaho
shoots the white house with an AK-47 .... Say goodbye to assault rifles because this guy was trying to kill the president while he was in california with his family
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-11-16/white-house-shooting-suspect-arrest/51248798/1
WASHINGTON – The man arrested this week on suspicion of firing shots from an assault weapon at the White House is scheduled to make his first court appearance in federal court in Pittsburgh on Thursday.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, of Idaho, was arrested in Pennsylvania on Wednesday after a four-day search. A hotel desk clerk had notified authorities after recognizing his picture.
The Secret Service said two bullets struck the White House. President Obama and his family were not home at the time of the shooting.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said Pennsylvania police, acting on information provided by the service, arrested Ortega at a hotel near Indiana, Pa.
The arrest took place shortly after the Secret Service reported that a bullet had hit a White House window.
"A round was stopped by ballistic glass behind the historic exterior glass," the agency said in a statement.
The Secret Service also said it had found "one additional round" on the "exterior of the White House," but did not specify where.
Authorities are investigating Ortega's mental health and said there are indications he believed attacking the White House was part of a personal mission from God, according to a law enforcement official who spoke with the Associated Press. There are also indications the suspect had become obsessed with Obama and the White House, according to two officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Gunfire was reported at around 9 p.m. Friday near the White House, the Secret Service said. The sound of the shots came from south of the White House, around the intersection of 16th Street and Constitution Avenue, about 700 to 800 yards from the White House.
"This damage has not been conclusively connected to Friday's incident, and an assessment of the exterior of the White House is ongoing," the Secret Service said in a statement.
Later that night, authorities reported a nearby abandoned car and an AK-47 rifle.
Obama was in California at the time of the shooting before he traveled to Hawaii and Australia.
On Wednesday, law enforcement officials could be seen taking a photo of a window on the upper floor on the south side of the White House.
Ortega did not resist arrest, said Pennsylvania State Trooper Lt. Brad Shields.
Ortega is from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and was reported missing Oct. 31 by his family.
On Friday morning, he was stopped by police in a Washington suburb after officers were called for a report of a suspicious person.
Police took photos of him but had no reason to arrest him, police Lt. Joe Kantor said.
Ortega has an arrest record in three states but has not been linked to any radical organizations, U.S. Park Police said.
The last White House shooting occurred in 1994, when Francisco Martin Duran began firing a semiautomatic rifle from Pennsylvania Avenue.
Bystanders subdued Duran after he fired at least two dozen rounds. Duran is now serving a 40-year prison sentence for that incident.
