Midday Roundup: Suspect in pastor's shooting arrested at White House

Conspiracy theory. The suspect in a shooting attack on an Idaho pastor was arrested Tuesday outside the White House, where he went to deliver a bizarre message about aliens to the president. Kyle Odom, 30, sent a manifesto to a TV station in Spokane, Wash., detailing his theory that Martians have invaded Earth, and pastor Tim Remington of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was one of them. Odom is accused of shooting Remington in the back multiple times outside Altar Church on Sunday. Remington survived the attack and is recovering in the hospital. In the manifesto, Odom wrote about having a mental breakdown, which he describes as an awakening, while in college in 2014. He became obsessed with the presence of “hypersexualized” aliens on Earth. When he crossed paths with Remington, Odom believed the church wanted to turn him into a sex slave. After trying to kill himself twice, Odom said he felt he had no choice but to try to kill Remington. After the shooting, he headed to Washington, D.C., to reach out to the president for help. The Secret Service arrested him after he tossed something over the White House fence.

Allowed to stay. Police arrested an illegal immigrant this morning for the shooting deaths of five people in Kansas and Missouri, after an interstate manhunt. The suspect, 36-year-old Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, was deported to Mexico in 2004, but reentered the United States illegally. Last fall, Serrano-Vitorino was detained in Overland Park, Kansas, but a paperwork mix-up led to his release before Immigration and Customs Enforcement could take custody of him for another deportation. Serrano-Vitorino is suspected of shooting and killing four men who lived next door to him in Kansas and killing another man in Missouri. The motive for the killings remains unclear.

Missile threat. Now in its second straight day of long-range missile tests, Iran showed that despite its warmer relations with the West following last summer’s nuclear deal, it still wants to obliterate Israel someday. Earlier today, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp fired a missile that traveled 1,400 kilometers—far enough to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. “The reason we designed our missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers is to be able to hit our enemy the Zionist regime from a safe distance,” Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told an Iranian news agency. The missiles reportedly were inscribed with the message, “Israel should be wiped from the pages of history.” The United States responded by saying it would raise concerns about the missile tests with the United Nations Security Council.

Terror victim. One American tourist is dead and four other people seriously wounded during a terrorist stabbing rampage in Tel Aviv, Israel. Taylor Force, 28, was with a tour group from Vanderbilt University, where he attended graduate school. Force graduated from West Point in 2009 and served as a U.S. Army officer until 2014, according to CNN. The Palestinian attacker knifed at least 10 victims, including a pregnant woman, before police killed him. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was on a state visit to Israel and was less than 2 miles from the scene of the attack. The U.S. delegation was aware of the incident but did not alter its schedule. Hours earlier, three Israelis were wounded in two separate terror attacks occurring simultaneously in Jerusalem and outside Tel Aviv.

WORLD Radio’s Paul Butler contributed to this report.