A man alleged to have shot a semiautomatic rifle at the White House was also an MMA fighter, according to a report issued Sunday by the "The New York Times."
Records show Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 21-year-old from Idaho Falls, Idaho, fought an amateur bout in July at the "Southeast Idaho Summer Smackdown" and earned a second-round TKO over Zack Marrow.
Now Ortega-Hernandez stands accused of attempting to assassinate the president 10 days after reports of gunfire at the White House led authorities to an abandoned vehicle registered in his name.
One of several bullets fired at the White House struck a bulletproof window in the executive mansion where President Obama and Michelle Obama reside. The pair were out of town on a trip to California and Hawaii.
Ortega-Hernandez was apprehended this past Wednesday in rural Pennsylvania after being reported missing by his family on Halloween.
A video of Ortega-Hernandez has surfaced in which he asks to appear on TV with Oprah Winfrey and claims he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Family members said he read a 45-minute politically-tinged speech at his 21st birthday earlier in October but did not seem violent, the Times report said.
Federal authorities say Ortega-Hernandez told acquaintances that he considered Obama "The Anti-Christ." An expert interviewed by the Times suggest the one-time fighter likely suffered from mental illness.
Ortega-Hernandez faces a possible life sentence if convicted of trying to assassinate the president.
