WASHINGTON – Police arrested a 21-year-old man yesterday suspected of shooting at the White House last week, after federal agents found two bullets that had hit the mansion, including one that struck a window.
Oscar Ortega-Hernandez was picked up by Pennsylvania state troopers at a hotel near Indiana, Pennsylvania. No one was hurt in the Friday night shooting.
The Secret Service said earlier yesterday one of the bullets broke a window but was stopped by protective ballistic glass behind the executive mansions historic external glass, said Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan. The other round struck the exterior of the building.
The rounds were found on the south side of the White House, where the master bedroom and the Lincoln bedroom of the presidential private residence are located, as well as other bedrooms and spaces that could be used by the first family.
Secret Service officers had heard shots fired on the street, between 700 and 800 yards (meters) south of the president’s residence. – (Reuters)