Suspect in shooting of Ted Cruz rally pastor arrested at White House

Washington Times ^ | 3/8/16 | Staff

[JimSEA]

The man suspected of shooting a prominent Idaho evangelical pastor was arrested Tuesday outside the White House hours after claiming his victim was a Martian.

Kyle Odom, 30, was arrested in Washington, D.C., two days after the attack on Tim Remington outside Altar Church in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, after Sunday services.

[JimSEA]

Unexpected. Good case of the crazies.

[Insigne123]

Sounds like a bad joke

[datura]

Wow.

Meth?

[grey_whiskers]

That last claim would have worried me IF they’d shown the guy had Slim Whitman MP3s on his stereo...

[JimSEA]

“In a Facebook post Tuesday afternoon, hours before he was reportedly taken into custody, Odom posted that he had shot Pastor Tim 12 times – Remington was hit six times – because he claimed he was a Martian who had ruined his life,” KXLY wrote.

From the article.

[ShivaFan]

I told you he would turn out to be a nut.
So the “Martians” made him do it.
How much you wanna’ bet he was also on SSRI’s, jist like the Columbine shooters and other stch incidents - the media never reports on the SSRI angle, only the gun.

This guy was out to shoot Obama next.

[lee martell]

Seems like everybody and his Cousin Eddie have jumped over that White House Fence, or plan to. Maybe it’s become one of those meaningless rituals a tourist is expected to do, like kissing The Blarney Stone in Cork, Ireland.

[Insigne123]

Oh, no, former marine...!

Back to the Charles Whitman, Lee Harvey Oswald, George Maharanis detractors babbling about jarheads

[LucyT]

[TChad]

John Padula, outreach pastor for the Altar Church, told the Associated Press that Mr. Remington has regained consciousness and is "whispering and talking to his family a little bit."

Good news.

[Paul R.]

I had not heard about this shooting. Prayers for Rev. Remington. (Shot 6 times, but has now regained consciousness.)

[Let's Roll]

You just can’t make this stuff up.

[tumblindice]

I want to thank Kyle Odom for being so good to me, and for saving the Earth and everything.

[Perchant]

Sure you can. If you’re looking for an insanity defense, Martians might not be enough, but adding the White House to it can get you a few jurors to bite.

[political1]

Democrats will say, they were Republican Martians to blame for this.

[doug from upland]

If we had Martians here, they would be voting for RATS.

[50sDad]

He had to report in.

[Let's Roll]

The headline alone, sans Martian, had me in hysterics.

[JimSEA]

You had it nailed.

[BigSkyVic]

LOL!!