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Guard Killed at Holocaust Museum

Shooter was white supremacist (UPDATED)

by
The Editors
June 10, 2009

UPDATED, 5:12 p.m.: A security guard was shot and killed inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. The gunman was 88-year-old James W. von Brunn, a known white supremacist. He walked into the museum with a rifle and opened fire. Guard Stephen Tyrone Johns was mortally wounded. Von Brunn was wounded and subdued by other guards, who returned fire. No one else was shot, and the building was evacuated. It will remain closed tomorrow

From the editors of Tablet Magazine.