WASHINGTON — Federal authorities charged a 21-year-old Idaho man on Thursday with trying to assassinate President Obama. They said he had told friends he believed the president was "the Antichrist" and that he "needed to kill him," according to a complaint filed in federal court.
The man, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, who is accused of firing a semiautomatic assault rifle at the residential floors of the White House last week, was also "convinced the federal government is conspiring against him" and had become "increasingly more agitated" before he disappeared from Idaho last month, the complaint said.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama were in San Diego at the time of the shooting. As for the couple's two daughters and their grandmother, a spokeswoman would not say where they were that night.
Ortega-Hernandez's family had reported him missing in Idaho Falls last month. He has had legal problems in Idaho, Texas and Utah, including drug charges, drinking, resisting arrest and assault on a police officer, officials have said.
It was not clear for several days that someone had deliberately fired at the White House. But the Secret Service has found at least two bullets.
The agency would not say where the White House had been struck, but workers Wednesday were examining a window overlooking the Truman Balcony, an area outside the second-floor residential quarters where the first family sometimes relaxes or hosts guests. A second round was found outside.
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