Coeur d'Alene Police Department
An Idaho man who shot a pastor in a church parking and led police on a two-day manhunt was taken into custody Tuesday night at the White House, Secret Service officials said.
The 30-year-old man opened fire on Sunday, in what Coeur d'Alene Police Department officials said was a planned attack against the pastor of the Church of the Altar.
The shooting occurred just a day after the pastor, Tim Remington, appeared with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz at a campaign rally, according to multiple news reports.
Police officials said the shooting did not appeared to have been a random incident, but did not say what may have prompted the attack.
Remington was taken to Kootenai Medical Center to be treated, police said in a Facebook post.
Authorities said Odom fled in a silver Honda Accord, but the 30-year-old was taken into custody more than 2,400 miles away in Washington, D.C., after he allegedly threw a suspicious object over the south fence of the White House Tuesday night.
A Secret Service official told BuzzFeed News they would not comment on the incident, but said the agency would be releasing a statement on the incident Tuesday night.
Authorities ran Odom through law enforcement databases and found he was wanted in Idaho for an attempted first-degree murder warrant, the Secret Service said.
Remington's church also stated on Facebook that Odom had been arrested in D.C.
Coeur d'Alene Police officials on Tuesday said Odom sent a letter to his parents and multiple news agencies in the area where it became evident the attack on Remington was not random.
"Information from the documents also indicates that another church member at the Alter Church was targeted," the statement read.
Police have since provided protection to the church member and his family.
Authorities would not disclose what was contained in the documents and flash drives that were provided by Odom to local news organizations, but a post on his Facebook account alleged that Remington was a martian from "an ancient civilization from Mars," The Spokesman-Review reported.
Odom is believed to have been been a corporal in the Marine Corps, and witnesses to the shooting told the paper that he looked "pretty professional as he was shooting."
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