Man Asked for Clinton Before He Was Shot : White House: He also mentioned President while being subdued by agents, official says. Relatives say the suspect had recently stopped taking Prozac.

The troubled intruder who scaled the White House perimeter fence Tuesday night asked to see President Clinton before he was shot by the Secret Service and mentioned Clinton several more times as he was subdued, an Administration official said Thursday.

The father and sister of Leland William Modjeski, 37, said he recently had stopped taking the powerful depression-fighting drug Prozac.

Investigators have not determined whether he was trying to kill the President. His empty revolver was a 50-year-old model, the Administration official said.

Modjeski, a graduate student with a history of mental problems, was shot by the Secret Service in the left arm after he cleared the fence and headed toward the White House.

The same bullet passed through the arm of a Secret Service agent who was trying to wrestle him to the ground.

Modjeski and the wounded agent, Scott Giambattista, remained in the hospital Thursday. Modjeski faces felony assault and weapons charges.

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Law enforcement sources said Modjeski’s Prozac came from a prescription issued to his wife, from whom he had been separated at least temporarily. His sister, Maurine Patton, said in New Orleans that Modjeski had stopped taking the drug about three weeks ago.

Modjeski’s grandmother said he had been treated for clinical depression. The grandmother, who lives in Baton Rouge, La., asked that her name not be published.

Clinton speculated on the motives of the short but growing list of people who have assaulted the presidential residence since last September.

“I just think that in a couple of cases we’ve had people who, for their own personal reasons, have seen this as a symbol of something that they could attach themselves to in some way or another,” he told reporters at the White House.

“A lot of the people out there may be like this gentleman--in trouble--and maybe can be brought back just by people reaching out to them and by trying to avoid letting things get to that point.”