Suspect in White House Shooting Captured in Pennsylvania
- Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:06pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Law enforcement officers photograph a window at the White House Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, as seen from the South Lawn. A bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass, the Secret Service said. An additional round of ammunition was found on the White House exterior. The bullets were found Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Law enforcement captured a man Wednesday afternoon wanted in connection with a shooting incident near the White House Friday.
Police took 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez into custody in Indiana, Penn. shortly after noon on Wednesday, NBC Washington reported. He was captured in a hotel and being held by Pennsylvania State Police. No other details were immediately available.
Indiana, Penn. is about 200 miles from Washington, D.C.
The arrest comes a day after the Secret Service said bullets were found on the White House grounds. One hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass. An additional round was also found on the exterior of the White House, though the Secret Service declined to provide a specific location.
U.S. Park Police issued an arrest warrant for Ortega after connecting him with an assault rifle and an abandoned vehicle found seven blocks from Friday’s incident.
Ortega is from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and was believed to be living in the Washington area. He was reported missing Oct. 31 by his family. He has an arrest record in three states but has not been linked to any radical organizations, U.S. Park Police said.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez
Prior to the shooting, Ortega was detained by local police at an abandoned house. U.S. Park Police said Ortega may also have spent time blending in with Occupy D.C. protesters who have set up an encampment near the White House.
The Secret Service said it has not conclusively linked Friday’s incident with the bullets that were found Tuesday. President Barack Obama was traveling at the time of the shooting Friday.
On Wednesday, officials could be seen taking photographs of a window on the south face of the executive mansion. The window they were inspecting is in front of the so-called Yellow Oval Room, according to the White House website. The room is in the middle of the family‘s living quarters on the floor that includes the president’s bedroom and the Lincoln Bedroom.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (138)
THX-1138
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:02pmOscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez must be a racist.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:09pmHe was probably protecting his family.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:12pmheard news reports that suspect fired in a speeding car from 800 yards away with an ak 47 and hit window to the President’s living quarters. Any gun experts willing to calculate the odds of this? I don’t believ it is likely for that to have happened.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:15pmPurely subjective…but Ortega has a distinct “Occupy” look about him.
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:30pmSo is Senor Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez a citizen? Im finding no info on him other then he went missing in oct. from out west….
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:00pmHe has “not been linked to any radical organizations” but he has been “blending in” with the OWS folks in DC. It’s really quite absurd how some people can look right at something and not see it for what it is.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:05pm.
Report Post »Why hold him? He missed………..
someonewhocares
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:40pmYep just another illegal.
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Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:55pmJust reckless and careless with a gun.
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:36pmI think they profiled hispanic-looking men.
Report Post »Founding Father2
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:42pmOr maybe he is like everyone else and fed up with Obama.
Rubio spoke out against him today and said that Obama has made it worse: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/nov/rubio_obama_worse.html
He is right, Obama is a disaster.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:26pm@THX-1138
Report Post »Maybe he is a racist. Maybe doesn’t like white guys. Obama is half white. Maybe he doesn’t like that Obama and Bush W. are 11th Cousins, Twice removed.
quicker
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:50pmI don`t trust anyone with 4 names.
Report Post »Blackop
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:54pmI suspect that many/most of you wish he had hit you know who.
Report Post »GclefGinger
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 8:07pm@Blackops
NO…Go to your corner…Time out for you.
Report Post »He’ll leave DC a peaceable way in a year to live out his days in Hawaii, where he can do the least damage.
NI6HTHAWK
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 8:23pm@ishka4me
The 7.62×39 in a standard ak-47 would not ever have any accuracy even if it could reach 800 yards and that’s when firing from a supported stationary position, never mind a speeding vehicle. I‘d check your sources or if they’re confirmed then this story does not even begin to tread water, it defies the laws of physics.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:52pmOrtega-Hernandez
I have never known any guy with a hyphenated name.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:10pmYou’ve never met any men from Central or South America or Spain? Many of my friends who are exchange students do so; keeping their maternal name as well as the paternal one.
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:17pmthere are a lot of them with hyphen ( three names) in state prisons
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:47pmthis is such an obamademocrat nonstory, they will be freaking out and trying to spin this for weeks now that he is a TEA Party member. where is the obamaloving la raza illegal/terrorist org to defend him. too bad the hispanic loon was so stupid. obama wasn’t even there.
Report Post »104thTimberwolves
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:21pmNon story absolutely correct! Looking for a little sympathy, huh? Not falling for it.
Report Post »http://theulstermanreport.com/2011/11/16/insider-called-it-staged-threat-against-obama/
UNBOTHERED
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:47pmThank you Burthills, for proving the USA’s point, that Conservatives are evil people, who would have no qualms about the president of the USA being assassinated. You have no ideas what your comments mean to God. And you also obviously see no ramifications of spewing such hatred about someone who you have never even met. You need to get on your knees and ask God why you have so much HATE in your spirit. And while you’re at it, ask him to rid you of it.
Report Post »Fire1949
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:22pmI’d almost bet some “unbothered people” were raised by atheist university professors that used illicit substances in the 60′s. Any “dumb conservative” is smart enough to know the Whitehouse is “armored”. That shooter had to be hard left-wing. I‘d also almost bet the shooter illegally voted for obama and doesn’t know the purpose of Charmin.
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:20pmDude was caught just 5 miles from my home, local news said he had a buddy that checked out two days ago. Pa. state police got him
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:45pmNice intel convict obama , that wouldnt surprise me at all thanx for not drinkin the cool aid kid , many here right now have cool aid runnin through there veins some big talkers too aint that right old school green
Report Post »convictobama
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:53pmHe stayed at DC Occupy 3 days the shooter did its fact, he was crazy I agree. Anyone who trusts this Chicago goon Obummer is silly. Obama promised to support their cause. He had FBI and Homeland security meet with 17 mayors and close them down. Its true, this is what democracy looks like. DOLT.
Report Post »Maleka
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:43pmUnfortunately, this country is filled with “loons” like this guy.
Report Post »Twinspeedr
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:36pmIt only takes one…
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:40pm@ oldschoolgreen I have found that poeple that run around calling poeple names , especaily who insult intelect are often realy talking about themselves now im sure this is your big moment to be some tough guy , try and relax son
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:48pmSomewhere out there, in the vast wasteland called America, the SpellingBee just stuck its head in an oven.
R.I.P. little guy…you’ve earned it.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:20pm@The_Almighty_Creestof, OMG, that’s hysterical!!!!! Poor little bee…..
Report Post »swampcooler
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:07pmthe spelling bee thing. that was good dude.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:38pmHow much is his bail and where do we send it?
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:21pmThe almighty moron sounds better
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:51pmThe sad part of your comment All Mighty, is that you mean ever word. And for that, you are no HUMAN BEING.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:54pm@In detroit
Report Post »Discovered Spell-Check I see…
The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:08pm@UNBOTHERED
Report Post »That does not compute.
In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:35pmThe gun was from fast and furious , its Eric Holders gun , What?????
Report Post »NJTMATO
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:16pmPERFECT post!!!! Love it and laughing hard!!!
Report Post »nixome2003
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:32pmIts a set up folks…..How could they have found him so quickly???? Wake up!!! They are coming for the guns!!!!
Report Post »convictobama
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:36pmNO SET UP!!\
Report Post »Obama double crossed Occupy and the radicals are pissed. Mark my words, It comes from a solid source. He went after Obummer, because he lied to them…
Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:40pmWill we find out if he is here illegally ? I doubt it , but it would be poetic justice seeing how the federal govt. Has filled this nation with third world welfare recipients……
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:33pmWhy would they? This ‘would-be-assassin‘ couldn’t even do enough homework to see the bamsters jet-settin the pacific rim lololol
Report Post »Tretka
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:55amBingo, Bingo, Bingo. They already know the flash point they need to hit…
Report Post »merzfan
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:31pmMy prediction: A TeaParty type will be “discovered” as the real “culprit.”
Report Post »convictobama
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:38pmhuff post called wants you back, your mom said hi and said to tell you “get out of her basement.” whack a mole!!
Report Post »convictobama
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:49pmits was humor sorry. this story upsets me as its not complete. telling that this guy is from DC occupy is my mission today… pass it on he spent 3 days at DC Occupy.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:29pmWe don’t need Barry becoming a martyr that would fulfill the dreams of Charles Manson and Louis Farrakhan,both want a race war.They both have that in common and they’re also insane.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:44pmWTH is all this talk or martyrdom and “crazy”. You don’t know anything about the dude yet. And do you think the revolutionaries were worried about the British becoming martyrs? This dude may be nuts… or he may have had enough and decided to use the same means that founded this nation when he realized that Amerikans will no longer stand up for anything. They are too busy on blogs blather about Obama being a martyr and worrying about race wars. Obama means nothing in history. He will go down as a president with an asterisk beside his name.
If something like that happens and it send one race into a frenzy… I say let it happen. Better to get it out and solved. Some how I just done see a race war going well against a people they label as rednecks with too many guns. Take your chances.
Personally I despise racists, especially racists that play their own race card. You people seriously need to wake the * up. You think the commies, left-loons and anarchists are worried about making you a martyr? Find your sac and start using it again Amerika. Our revolutionary ancestors would be p***** off to know that their sacrifice was for NOTHING. We have become weak and fearful of being called, racist, radical, extreme, etc.
Report Post »Fire1949
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:32pmHey, DTOM, great writing………!!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:40pmDtom The guy‘s probably of the ows ilk but it’s all speculation anyway.You say I‘m too busy blathering online about a race war and martyrdom yet here you sit wasting your time online complaining we’re losing our republic.So general when will you lead your troops into battle? You have the men and munitions to save the republic?
I‘ve got news for you the republic won’t be saved through violence no way no how,a civil war is started and it would be crushed very quickly,a lot of people can talk on the internet about doing something but you don’t see anything happening do you? What you see is a bunch of anarchists and communists making noise and being idiots and that’s all.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 8:30pm@Progressive
How does me posting about our republic indicate what I have or have not done? Â You have no idea and that‘s kind of the point isn’t it? Â Can you tell me what freedom wasn’t won with “violence”? Â How was your country freed from tyranny? Â With what does the tree of liberty need refreshed? Â
Conversely, you aren’t doing anything. The inane points you concern yourself are what prove that. Martyrs? Please. Â What a nice progressive concept. Go back to sleep and leave the heavy lifting to us.Â
What I am doing here is calling out people like you. Prople that say, “Wake up, the house is burning! Go sleep on the couch”. Â The next time you come at me, bring more than public school, progressive, reasoning.Â
In case you missed it, the stupid **** with which you concern yourself is how I know people like you aren’t doing anything. Go vote in some gerrymandered illusion of choice.Â
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 8:39pmI think some people on this site need to get over spelling/grammar. Some of it anyway. Try using this terrible comment system on an iPhone that thinks it is smarter than you. Blaze really needs and edit feature.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:10pmDTOM Heavy lifting? Okay I‘m still waiting tell us how specifically you’re going to save the republic?
Since you have all the answers don‘t you think you should tell us how you’re going to do it?
With what does the tree of liberty need refreshed? That would be the blood of tyrants,but you haven‘t said how that’s going to come about now have you?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:25pmGuy has mental issues. “Crazy” holds to no ideology or party.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:43pmLOCKED I agree
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:18pmAgreed….we’ll see what motivated him when his statements or correspondences are released. He may be another Loughner, he may not.
Report Post »meskew
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:25pmNow, now ladies and gentlemen. Can’t we all just get along?
Report Post »convictobama
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:24pmHe was in occupy DC for three days at least wheres the truth here? Obama said he supported the OWS
Report Post »Obama through FBI and Homeland security ordered mayors to close protests. He was a radical supporting overthrow of USA. Wow imagine if that was a TEA member? The trth needs to be told..
This shooter is from OCCUPY!!!
Fly on the Wall
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:32pmCONVICTOBAMA: You keep saying he’s from Occupy…yet there is no report of that. There was a report that after the shooting someone said they thought he was spotted there. Do you have any other information on this or just spreading rumor? Sounds more like he headed out of the state as fast as possible.
Report Post »warveteran
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:23pmHe is a lefty. That is why the mental issues are played up.
Report Post »convictobama
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:33pmExactly shooter FROM OCCUPY DC, they have to say hes nuts. A sane radical Marxist couldn’t kill anyone, except maybe 30 million in Russia. Sleep with the devil, thats what ya get!! LMAO at Obummer!!
Report Post »Fire1949
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:07pmAs Michael Savage frequently espouses, “liberalism IS a mental disorder” !!!!!
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:20pmWell looks like im to much for the my nucleur arsenol of truth and glory is not welcomed here just mindless unread tv watching lost sheep is what is welcomed at the good ol blaze comment board sad day in america babe i can see trouble on the horizon
Report Post »Amica
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:29pmNo…it‘s just that there’s a minimum coherency requirement and you don’t appear to meet that.
Charlie…is that you??? You were doing so well too!
Report Post »oldschoolgreen
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:30pmYou think he is such an all fired up great American why don’t you try what he did? No? Why not?
Report Post »oldschoolgreen
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:32pmYou are a silly little person. Go back to whatever conspiracy filled land you spawned from and let the reasonable people alone.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:22pm@Amica, he should have put the flowers on Algernon’s grave himself and just wandered away.
Report Post »oldschoolgreen
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:27pmbiohazard 23
Report Post »HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!! I love it. Course Detroit doens’t quite get the reference. That’s okay Detroit. I’ll type slower so you can read it. How’s this? Better?
biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:08pm@oldschoolgreen, I think you were still typing a bit too fast for our grammatically-challenged friend. :)
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:21pmBiohazard23, I read that book when I was 13, and it made me so sad. It’s the kind of book you wish you could unread.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:17pm@jespasinthru, I read it when I was about that age, too. And you’re right. It’s almost as bad as Old Yeller…..
Report Post »Espada
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:19pmApparently a poor shot.
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:16pmWhy is he under arrest ? Shouldnt there be an award ceremony ? This man is a great american isnt he? Im lost?
DagneyT
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:21pmGod, please protect our White House’s current resident. The idea of the media‘s ’martyring’ of this moron is my worst nightmare!
Report Post »meskew
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:24pmNow, now ladies and gentlemen. Can’t we all just get along?
Report Post »oldschoolgreen
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:25pmYou know what? Your an idiot.I don’t like the man,I don’t like his policies,I don’t like what he has planned. I will fight him at the ballot box, in the courts and everywhere I can but I took an oath to defend him against bodily harm as did every veteran, and by God come hell or high water I will. The peaceful transfer of power is one of the many amazing miracles of the American experiment and its comments like yours that put that in jeapordy.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:31pmThat worries me as well Dagnyet, if the powers behind his ascension to power decide he’s more useful as a martyr, it will be bad for us all.
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:32pmI know , I know im rotten just cant sleep lol
Report Post »meetsense
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:09pm‘Oldschool’, I feel the same way about defending the POTUS, but people come and go and not since the founding have we had someone who actually represented the pure ideals of our America. No, we should really get fired up about defending our Constitution, which does represent the U.S. and trumps any president, and btw, that is what we all swore to defend.
Report Post »EPROM
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:16pmPennsylvania? ….Maybe after shootin’ up the White House he was going to try and break Jerry Sandusky out of jail?
Report Post »convictobama
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:30pmTruth?
Report Post »Shooter from OCCUPY DC, OBAMA DOUBLE CROSSED THE OCCUPY WHEN HE ORDERED MAYORS TO EVICT THEM!! ITS ALL OVER THE OCCUPY SITES!!!
BE CAREFUL IN NYC TOMORROW!! ITS GONNA BE BAD!!
Gonzo
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:49pmIt’s New York Convict…it’s always bad.
Report Post »glennrocks
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:15pmThey say he has a history of Mental problems. I feel bad for his parents.
Report Post »RestoreCapitalism
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:13pmThe media is no doubt trying to devise and angle on this to make it look like a right wing shooter.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:17pmWonder if that was one of those “fast and furious” guns ??? Will we ever know?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:13pmHow long until they insinuate that he is associated with the Tea Party? He looks More OWS to me.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:18pmOh they will probably do it .. and then when proven wrong .. ignore that FACT.
Report Post »pbhiller
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:11pmGlad he is off the streets. Now please make sure he is not let go..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:11pmGood they got him.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:09pmShoot at the White House and get chased across the country, shoot at a border patrol agent and you get a visa to live in the US. barack begone!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 2:18pmIt would be rather amusing if the gun came from fast and furious.
Report Post »Fire1949
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:26pmJust a little backwards, huh…….
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:30pmWeapons from the Fast And Furious debacle are being used in gang-related crimes all over the USA right now. But the media will never let you know that.
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