FBI: Would-be Obama assassin had brass knuckles

The FBI says the semi-automatic assault rifle recovered from White House shooting suspect Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez's car was a Romanian Cugir SA equipped with a large scope. Witnesses say the suspect was known to own that type of gun in Idaho and when Ortega left a couple of weeks ago, the gun went missing.

According to the criminal complaint, additional ammunition was recovered (along with the gun) from Ortega-Hernandez's car: three loaded magazines and several extra boxes of cartridges.

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez criminal complaint
WH suspect charged with assassination attempt

Officials also recovered an aluminum baseball bat, brass knuckles and a sales receipt for purchases made at a WalMart in Fairfax, Virginia just four and a half hours before the shooting.

Police also found nine spent shell casings inside the car and an examination of the White House revealed "several confirmed bullet impact points on the south side of the building on or above the second story." Several bullets and fragments were collected. One of bullets recovered is consistent with the type of ammo found in Ortega-Hernandez's car.

Witnesses told the FBI that Ortega had become increasingly angry with the federal government and President Obama. The suspect reportedly called the president the antichrist and indicated Ortega "needed to kill (Obama)."

[pr_boxer]

Tea Party riff-raff !

[Harden_Tar]

Of all the things this guy was packing and the lead is brass knucks? Why not aluminum baseball bat? You can do a lot more damage with that bat. This dude is a certifiable moron.

[Imthaid2]

How is this news?

[OzCharley]

Because he had ACTUAL brass knuckles. I mean, they were made of authentic brass. Not fake or imitation brass.

Not cheap replica knuckles coated in a thin, glassy brass-looking veneer or alternative finish.

No sir.

Real brass.

[NinthSt78]

Good. Those pre-owned high mileage hotel Hoovers are worth every cent.

[cbsblogger]

Unfortunately for America, sensational headlines are all that count so as to sway the masses. How can they claim him as a Presidential assassin if it was common knowledge by all that Obama / POTUS wasn't home?

The DHS, FBI need to find out if he was a radical on the order of the right wing Israeli Zionist that killed the Israeli PM Yitsak Rabin because he wasn't right wing enough with the settlements.

The media is going to attempt to cover this up just like Penn State attempted to cover up Sandusky, believing it is better to lie to the masses than to expose embarrassment of a country or institution.

[buckyjo]

The semi-automatic rifle was bad but brass knuckles changes everything. If the cops find a clown's rubber mallet in his car then he's got to be an international terrorist.

[OzCharley]

Plus, he was frowning when the police arrested him. Frowning is an indictable offence.

[cbsblogger]

Why does CBS both cover up the prominent "Israel" tattoo with the video banner and then never mention it. Geez if I didn't know better I'd think the MSM was trying to prevent a discussion of the relationship between this assassin and Israel.

[buckyjo]

You're not supposed to mention the "I" word in American media unless it has to do with the holocaust. Abe Foxman will label you a Jew Hating Holocaust Denier (JHHD) which if I'm not mistaken is a registered trademark with the ADL.

[mecanik-2009]

I can explain these "brass hand weights." See this guy is training to be a boxer and he uses them to train with and it common to use brass hand weights to make your hands heavy to strengthen your muscles. And the shooting of the "shoulder strengthening aid" was to keep his shoulder stronger. The bullets were "accidentally" fired in the wrong direction due to wind correction errors from erroneous gps readings that were sent from intentional CIA disturbance transmissions and so in the end the CIA is to blame for all of this. It's a plot to discredit my client and he totally innocent of all of these charges your honor.

[stupa5]

Just another low life looking for 3 squares, a bed & federal health care!One of the 99%

[stupa5]

Breaking News!
Tough guy! Uses the brass knuckles to punch himself out of a wet paper bag!