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Shooting Suspect Charged With Trying to Kill Obama

Ortega-Hernandez faces attempted assassination charges

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 17, 2011 2:31 PM CST

(Newser) – The 21-year-old accused of firing a semiautomatic rifle at the White House will be charged with trying to assassinate President Obama, reports CNN. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez faces life in prison if convicted. Secret Service agents found two bullets, including one that got stopped by reinforced glass in a White House window. Ortega-Hernandez appeared in court briefly today and answered, "Yes ma'am" when asked if he understood the proceedings. The Idaho native (officials there identify him as Oscar Ramiro Ortega) will be transferred from Pittsburgh to a prison in DC, where he will be formally indicted.

This image provided by the US Park Police shows an undated image of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez.
This image provided by the US Park Police shows an undated image of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez.   (AP Photo/U.S. Park Police)
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Barack_Must_Go
Nov 17, 2011 7:24 PM CST
It's not the state of Israel, it's the name of his gay lover Israel Hermosa Barbosa Hernandez Rodreguez, butt he prefers to be called by his nickname of Poppy.
The_Truth
Nov 17, 2011 5:43 PM CST
A man with a tattoo of Isreal doesn't shoot the white house without having some connection to Isreal. Sad thing is that he's most likely not an Israeli national so he won't get the no question asked deportation to Isreal like they did with the Israeli's they caught in a van full of explosives on 9/11, who even admitted they were there to cause a terror attack.
Barack_Must_Go
Nov 17, 2011 5:24 PM CST
I guess the ___ Clown still won't let his co-conspirators in the MSM relese whether this fine liberal fellow is in our country illegally, or not.  I'm gonna call The Donald on the bastard. He'll get to the bottom of this. I hope Trump will agree to be on hand election night in Republican headquarters, so when the A C stops sobbing, composes himself and calls with his concession speech, the first words back hears back are " YOOOOOOOUUUUUUU'RRRRRRRE FIIIIIIRRRRRED, jackass ! 

 
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