White House Shooter Ortega-Hernandez Gets 25-Year Term
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An Idaho man who pleaded guilty to firing an assault rifle at the White House from his car in 2011 was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 23, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, shot at the White House in a “misguided effort to make the public aware of what he believed to be the coming Armageddon,” his lawyers wrote in memo to U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer seeking 10-year sentence. “It was emphatically not his intention to injure anyone, let alone President Obama.”