--- title: White House Jumper's Arraignment Delayed Over Mental-Health Concerns description: Judge orders a full mental-health competency evaluation of Omar Gonzalez, who scaled the White House fence last month. canonical: https://time.com/3530414/white-house-fence-jumper-omar-gonzalez-mental-health/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-22T06:04:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:56:10.541Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Fence Jumper Trial Delayed og:description: Judge orders a full mental health competency evaluation og:url: https://time.com/3530414/white-house-fence-jumper-omar-gonzalez-mental-health/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca067f8f8f6a1bcd/698762318e0601fdae457da8/omar_gonzalez_white_house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: New River Regional Jail booking photo of Omar Gonzalez og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Fence Jumper Trial Delayed twitter:description: Judge orders a full mental health competency evaluation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca067f8f8f6a1bcd/698762318e0601fdae457da8/omar_gonzalez_white_house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House Fence Jumper's Arraignment Delayed Over Mental-Health Concerns by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Oct 22, 2014 6:04 AM UTC  Alleged White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez, 42, is shown in this New River Regional Jail booking photo released on September 23, 2014. Alleged White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez, 42, is shown in this New River Regional Jail booking photo released on September 23, 2014.Handout—Reuters by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Oct 22, 2014 6:04 AM UTC The indictment of Omar Gonzalez — the man who jumped the White House fence last month — was [delayed](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/10dd188e4a244c2ebf6cce5466b78e28/arraignment-delayed-white-house-fence-jumper) on Tuesday, after a judge ruled that his mental competence to stand trial remained uncertain. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer made the decision after an earlier mental-health screening raised a few red flags, the Associated Press reported. Collyer ordered a full mental-health competency evaluation before Gonzalez is allowed to stand trial, a process that will likely delay the case by at least a few weeks. Gonzalez is facing charges that include assault and unlawful possession of weapons after he reportedly [scaled the fence](http://time.com/3406553/white-house-fence-jumper-evacuation/) of the White House’s North Lawn in mid-September, wielding a knife and assaulting two Secret Service agents. A [subsequent search](http://time.com/3418740/white-house-fence-jumper-obama/) of his car revealed hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a hatchet and a machete. Gonzalez apparently told a Secret Service agent after he was apprehended that he was concerned the atmosphere was collapsing and needed to inform the President. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3530414/white-house-fence-jumper-omar-gonzalez-mental-health/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3530414/white-house-fence-jumper-omar-gonzalez-mental-health/"},"headline":"White House Fence Jumper's Arraignment Delayed Over Mental-Health Concerns","datePublished":"2014-10-22T06:04:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:56:10.541Z","description":"Judge orders a full mental-health competency evaluation","url":"https://time.com/3530414/white-house-fence-jumper-omar-gonzalez-mental-health/","keywords":["Courts","White House","Screening"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca067f8f8f6a1bcd/698762318e0601fdae457da8/omar_gonzalez_white_house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca067f8f8f6a1bcd/698762318e0601fdae457da8/omar_gonzalez_white_house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"New River Regional Jail booking photo of Omar Gonzalez","caption":"New River Regional Jail booking photo of Omar Gonzalez","creditText":"Handout—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/courts/","name":"Courts"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3530414/white-house-fence-jumper-omar-gonzalez-mental-health/","name":"White House Fence Jumper's Arraignment Delayed Over Mental-Health Concerns"}}]}] ```