According to the Washington Post, Tuesday a federal grand jury indicted Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, on 17 counts including the attempted assassination of President Obama. Mr Ortega-Hernandez allegedly fired 12 shots at the White House while Mr Obama was in California. Two shots hit the outside of the White House. He fired the shots with a Romanian-made assault rifle on November 11 of last year.
Prior to the shooting, Mr Ortega-Hernandez made a video with a school friend in which he declared himself the second coming of Jesus and called Mr Obama the “devil.” The charge of attempted assassination is punishable by up to life in prison. No word on whether Mr Ortega-Hernandez’s legal representation put in an insanity plea. One would think that a youth, believing himself to be Jesus and believing Mr Obama to be the devil, might validly be let off on mental health grounds and that due to his state of mind he did not possess mens rea.
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