Shooting at the Holocaust Museum

Hiraga · Jun 10, 2009

Why hasn't anyone reported this yet?! The shooter is a 'harcore neo-nazi', and a gaurd has died.
It's terrible...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/museum.shooting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Law center: Shooting suspect has 'long history' with neo-NazisStory Highlights
NEW: Web site attributed to James von Brunn calls Holocaust, Christianity "hoaxes"

NEW: Von Brunn served in Navy in WWII, Web site "Holy Western Empire" says

Law center: Von Brunn, 88, has "long history" with neo-Nazis, white supremacists

He served six years in federal prison on attempted kidnapping, assault, gun charges
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist from Maryland, two law enforcement officials told CNN.

Journalists gather outside Holocaust museum shooting suspect's last known residence in Annapolis, Maryland.

1 of 2 Von Brunn served six years in prison on federal attempted kidnapping, assault and firearms charges after what he called a "legal, nonviolent citizens arrest" of members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

On his Web site, "Holy Western Empire," von Brunn said he was "convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge."

"He is in our files going back way into the 1980s," said Heidi Beirich, a researcher for the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

"He has extremely long history with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. He's written extremely incendiary publications, raging about Jews, blacks and the like."

A museum security guard was killed in Wednesday afternoon's shooting, sources told CNN. The suspect was wounded and is in critical condition, sources said. Watch more about von Brunn's history with neo-Nazis »

A museum statement identified the slain guard as Stephen Tyrone Johns, a six-year veteran of the security staff, saying he "died heroically in the line of duty."

The suspect was wounded and is in critical condition, sources said.

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District of Columbia police and the FBI said the shooting appeared to have been the work of a single gunman and there was no prior indication of the attack. Watch witness describe shooting »

Von Brunn's Web site states he served as a Navy officer during World War II. But by the late 1970s, Beirich told CNN, he had become a "hardcore neo-Nazi" and an associate of William Pierce -- the white supremacist leader whose 1978 book, "The Turner Diaries," is credited with inspiring Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

The suspect's site proclaims itself "a new, hard-hitting exposé of the Jew conspiracy to destroy the white gene-pool."

A posting attributed to von Brunn on another Web site, antichrist.net, calls both Christianity and the Holocaust "hoaxes."

"'Christianity' destroyed Roman Civilization. The 'Holocaust' religion is destroying Western civilization. The Aryan gene-pool dies, 'unwept, unhonored and unsung,'" the item states.
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NEW: Stephen Tyrone Johns died "heroically in the line of duty," museum says

Suspect is 88-year-old white supremacist, law enforcement officials say

Man with "long gun" entered museum, fired at guard, police spokesman says

Security guard and shooter were wounded in exchange of gunfire, police say

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A lone gunman killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday before being wounded himself by return fire from other guards, sources confirmed to CNN.

Stephen Tyrone Johns was shot and killed while working at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday.

1 of 3 The suspect was identified as James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist from Maryland, two law enforcement officials told CNN.

The museum identified the guard as Stephen Tyrone Johns.

The gunman entered the museum at 12:50 p.m. with a rifle and immediately shot a museum security guard, said Chief Cathy Lanier of the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department. Two other security guards returned fire, wounding the gunman, she said.

Both the gunman and a security guard were taken to George Washington University Hospital, where the gunman was in "critical" condition, said D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. Neither Lanier nor Fenty would identify the gunman. Witnesses: 'Panic' inside museum »

The museum released a statement saying Johns died "heroically in the line of duty."

"There are no words to express our grief and shock over these events. He served on the Museum's security staff for six years. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Officer Johns' family," the statement said. "We have made the decision to close the Museum tomorrow in honor of Officer Johns, and our flags will be flown at half mast in his memory."

Von Brunn is a known Holocaust denier who reportedly has claimed that the book "The Diary of Anne Frank," about a teenage girl's experiences under Nazi rule, was a hoax. The shooting occurred two days before what would have been Anne Frank's 80th birthday.

Emergency vehicles converged on the area, which is near the Washington Monument and other popular tourist attractions. The museum was full at the time, with a "couple of thousand" people inside, said William Parsons, the chief of staff.

"Never take your guard force and security people for granted," Parsons said. "They did exactly what they were supposed to do to protect people in the museum." Law enforcement analyst talks about how this could have happened »

An FBI official said there was no prior warning or threat against the museum. In a later statement, the FBI said members of its National Capital Response Squad and Joint Terrorism Task Force are taking part in the investigation.

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Lanier said the area around the museum was checked by bomb-sniffing dogs as a matter of routine.

President Obama was made aware of the incident, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.

"I walked in and I told him there had been a shooting at the museum," Gibbs said, adding that Obama was "obviously concerned for the security guard that appears to have been hurt ... obviously saddened by what has happened." See where the museum is located »

A witness, who identified herself as 19-year-old Maria without providing a last name, told CNN she heard five shots and saw a security guard lying wounded on the ground.

"It was definitely a security guard, he was down bleeding on the floor," she said. "He was face down. His back ... blood was coming out." Watch Maria describe what she saw »

Dave Pearson, a sixth-grade teacher in the Washington area, said he was on the museum's fourth floor when he heard a loud noise.

"At the time, we're visiting and all of a sudden there's like a boom, and all of a sudden they told us to stop where we're at," he told CNN's Ed Henry.

"Only thing we heard was a boom, and that was it." Watch another museum visitor tell what he saw »

A woman who did not give her name said she understood the shooting happened inside the museum near the security checkpoint at the entrance.

She said she was quickly evacuated.

"We did see yellow tape down the hall when we were being rushed out," she said. "They came in and said we had to leave right away, and they got us out."

The museum was closed for the rest of the day, and the museum statement said: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the officer and his family."

A statement by the Israeli Embassy expressed shock and sadness at the shooting and said it condemned the attack. Fenty called the shooting "an extremely isolated incident" in the nation's capital, which is a major tourist destination.

"In these days and times, you never know when someone is going to grab a gun and use it in an inappropriate way," he said.
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Draven · Jun 10, 2009

C*nt. I hope he dies, and I hope it's excruciatingly painful. If he doesn't die, I hope he ends up a total vegetable.

deltaprime · Jun 10, 2009

This is horrible. Absolutely horrible. And pretty disrespectful.

cheetorBWORG · Jun 10, 2009

Che... I hate people who always take offense to the color of someone's skin color... Simply stupid.

deltaprime · Jun 10, 2009

cheetorBWORG said: ↑

Che... I hate people who always take offense to the color of someone's skin color... Simply stupid.
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Exactly! A person's skin color makes no difference to the kind of person they are. This guy is seriously messed up.

Bryan · Jun 10, 2009

The bottom line is that this bastard is completely beyond redemption and he needs to die. But not right away. We should experiment on him the way his beloved Nazis experimented on Jewish prisoners before putting him in a gas chamber, since he likes the way they did things so much.

Honestly, it makes me think humanity really is beyond saving if anyone can still embrace what Hitler believed. Maybe WWIII is what we need to start over.

Rhinox · Jun 10, 2009

Why bother using medical time and equipment to save the life of an 80 year old bastard who seemingly wanted to die?
Let's get him in the ground.

JetRaid · Jun 10, 2009

I hope this guy dies painfully and slowly

f**king I HATE THESE PEOPLE!

realCliffjumper · Jun 10, 2009

Oh my god. That is aweful. I have been to that museum, it is quite poignant. My condolsences go out to the family of the guard.

Darkwing48 · Jun 10, 2009

Yes he deserves to die and I hope he burns in hell!!!.
My heart goes out the the guard, who didn't deserve it.

Star Sabre James · Jun 10, 2009

Draven said: ↑

C*nt. I hope he dies, and I hope it's excruciatingly painful. If he doesn't die, I hope he ends up a total vegetable.
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Draven said it best. I wish the worst on this waste of oxygen.

billmoo · Jun 10, 2009

Hope the spouse of the slain guard shoots the guy again when he gets out of IC.

KnightSaberAmi · Jun 10, 2009

Its one thing to self destruct but why the hell couldn't the ass just do himself in?

My most sincerest condolences for both families.

Eric · Jun 10, 2009

Yeah I heard about it on the news. If this guy lives, I hope he dies of cancer.

Mechafire · Jun 10, 2009

WOW, I was just at that place a week ago. Holy shit.

T-money · Jun 10, 2009

It is really unfortunate that people full of so much unjustified hate still exist in this world.

ORIO · Jun 10, 2009

I can't stand racism. It is absolutely unnecessary. I fail to understand the point.

grimlock1972 · Jun 10, 2009

I cannot stand people who are bigots, and preach hate of a group of people basedon skin color, placeof birth or religion , I hope he dies and spares the expense of a trial and let him face his judgement in the afterlife, my condolences to the family of the slain Guard, who died heroicly in the line of duty

03Mach1 · Jun 10, 2009

This kind of act is inexcusable. I hope he lives and spends the rest of pathetic little life in a prison full of nothing but the people he hates the most.

Sam's_Bee · Jun 10, 2009

What a waste of space the shooter is, my thoughts are with the family of the guard who died. And the cops/support people who arrived to help.

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