Man Was Shot Trying to Break Into Washington Fox Station

A man who was shot by a security guard at the Fox station in Washington after kicking through a pair of locked doors and trying to enter the lobby was previously charged with murder but the case had been dismissed.

The shooting took place around 3:07 p.m. on Oct. 22 at the building on Wisconsin Avenue in the Friendship Heights neighborhood.

Surveillance video captured the suspect, identified as 38-year-old George Odemns entering the building by kicking through locked doors and heading toward the main part of the building. The security footage is at the top of the page.

The female security guard drew her weapon and told the suspect to stop but shot him after he didn’t, reported Fox 5. “He thought we were females and it wasn’t going to get handled. … But it did,” one of the security guards involved said.

A police source told the broadcaster that the shooting will likely be legally justified.

Odemns was removed from the building on a stretcher and rushed to George Washington University Hospital in an ambulance. He was in critical but stable condition and charged with second-degree burglary.

Shadows of reporters are behind police tape as police respond after a man was shot by a security guard while trying to break into the lobby of a building housing the offices of WTTG-TV, the local Fox broadcast affiliate in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Police respond after a man was shot by a security guard while trying to break into the lobby of a building housing the offices of WTTG-TV, the local Fox broadcast affiliate in Washington, Oct. 22, 2018. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Mental Problems

The suspect, who has no fixed address, has a history of filing strange lawsuits, including one alleging he had a microchip implanted in his head.

He was also charged with first-degree murder while armed in April 2002 but the case was dismissed for an unclear reason the next year, reported WTOP.

Odemns has filed several dozen lawsuits since 2014, according to court records, including one that said he had a microchip implanted in his head that controlled his thoughts and actions. Several were against the Trump organization. “The court concludes that what factual contentions are identifiable are baseless, irrational, and wholly incredible,” a judge wrote in 2016 about one of the suits.

All the lawsuits have been dismissed. Sources told NBC that Odemns broke into Fox 5 because he wanted to get into contact with President Donald Trump.

Odemns has also sent rambling emails to Fox, WTOP, and other news organizations in the past about a range of issues.

From NTD.tv