WASHINGTON - UPDATE: The Secret Service says the man wanted in connection with Friday's shooting near the White House has been taken into custody. Authorities say Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was arrested at a hotel near Indiana, Pa. at about 12:35 p.m. Wednesday and is currently in the custody of Pennsylvania State Police. Ortega-Hernandez was sought by federal authorities after reports of gunfire near the White House on Friday night. Witnesses heard shots and saw two speeding vehicles in the area. An assault rifle was also recovered. No one was injured in the shooting, but officials are investigating two bullets that hit the White House, one of them apparently cracking a window on the residential level where President Barack Obama and his family live. The Secret Service said it discovered the bullets Tuesday, but said it was not certain they were connected to Friday's shooting. On Wednesday, officials could be seen taking photographs of a window on the south face of the executive mansion. The window is in the center of the rounded portico. "An assessment of the exterior of the White House is ongoing," Secret Service spokesperson Ed Donovan says in a statement emailed to reporters. "A round was stopped by ballistic glass behind the historic exterior glass," he says. "One additional round has been found on the exterior of the White House. This damage has not been conclusively connected to Friday's incident." U.S. Park Police identified the suspect in Friday's shooting as Oscar Ramiro Ortega, 21, and obtained a warrant charging him with carrying a dangerous weapon, a felony. A Secret Service spokesman identified the suspect as Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, saying that is the name on his driver's license. After the Friday gunfire was reported, police said they found an abandoned car Friday night near the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge that crosses the Potomac River to Virginia. U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said items found in the vehicle led investigators to the suspect, who hasn't been linked to any radical organizations but does have an arrest record in three states, Schlosser said Monday. Federal officials also set up a joint task force to investigate last week's shooting. Lindsay Godwin, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington Field Office, tells WTOP the task force includes the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Metropolitan Police Department, U.S. Park Police and Secret Service. Ortega-Hernandez was believed to be living in the Washington area with ties to Idaho. Idaho Falls Police Department spokeswoman Joelyn Hansen says Ortega-Hernandez's family reported him missing Oct. 31. Hansen says they received word Friday that Ortega-Hernandez was well when police in Arlington stopped him after a citizen reported someone "circling the area." Arlington Police Lt. Joe Kantor said when police stopped the suspect, he was on foot and had an out of state address. Police took photos of him but had no cause to detain him, Kantor said. Police agencies were told to consider Ortega-Hernandez dangerous and unstable.
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