Elderly Gunman kills Guard at Holocaust Museum
By NAFEESA SYEED, Associated Press Writer Nafeesa Syeed, Associated Press Writer – 5 mins ago
WASHINGTON – An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, killing a security guard before being shot. Authorities said they were investigating a white supremacist as the suspect. The assailant was hospitalized in critical condition, Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty said.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the gunman was "engaged by security guards immediately after entering the door" with a rifle. "The second he stepped into the building he began firing."
One law enforcement official said James Von Brunn, 89, a white supremacist, was under investigation in the shooting, and a second official said the elderly man's car was found near the museum and tested for explosives. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss the investigation just beginning.
Von Brunn has a racist, anti-Semitic Web site and wrote a book titled "Kill the Best Gentiles."
In 1983, he was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board. He was arrested two years earlier outside the room where the board was meeting, carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun. At the time, police said Von Brunn wanted to take the members hostage because of high interest rates and the nation's economic difficulties
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WASHINGTON – An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, killing a security guard before being shot. Authorities said they were investigating a white supremacist as the suspect. The assailant was hospitalized in critical condition, Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty said.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the gunman was "engaged by security guards immediately after entering the door" with a rifle. "The second he stepped into the building he began firing."
One law enforcement official said James Von Brunn, 89, a white supremacist, was under investigation in the shooting, and a second official said the elderly man's car was found near the museum and tested for explosives. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss the investigation just beginning.
Von Brunn has a racist, anti-Semitic Web site and wrote a book titled "Kill the Best Gentiles."
In 1983, he was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board. He was arrested two years earlier outside the room where the board was meeting, carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun. At the time, police said Von Brunn wanted to take the members hostage because of high interest rates and the nation's economic difficulties
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Comment by truth on June 10, 2009 at 7:03pm
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Publicly, the authorities did not identify Mr. von Brunn as the sus...
Massanova found this. So the evidence against him is his car was nearby. I am waiting for the video camera footage....but won't be holding my breath. Heard the guard killed was a Wakenhut employee. Guess they knew better than to have Marvin Bush's company doing security. And F Wakenhut BTW.
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Comment by TheLasersShadow on June 10, 2009 at 7:01pm
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It makes sense now that I think of it ..... How does DHS legitimize its reports??? Hmmm? Well its easy just get a stereotypical subject of one of their reports to commit a crime!!!
One guard dies and now a media circus incurs, what a joke!!
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Looks like they are desperate to connect us with white supremacists, really desperate.
This guy might be an Gov. plant or he's just a brainless.
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Disarm the rest of the world I guess but you know they have hit a steel wall here in the USA. They should just give up at this point and throw the tyranny switch, I don't know what they are waiting for.
This guys an idiot why on earth go after a guard? Thats just moronic!
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Comment by Tara on June 10, 2009 at 5:02pm
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It'll be interesting to see where this case leads, probably more hate crime legislation ultimately to crack down more on freedom of speech.
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