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Article: Horror at Holocaust museum; Gunman kills guard at memorial to WWII genocide victims.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2009
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Byline: Joseph Weber, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
An elderly man with virulent anti-Semitic views and a 1980s conviction for plotting to take government hostages opened fire Wednesday inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing a security guard before being wounded in a gunbattle that pierced the silence of one of Washington's most somber memorials.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene inside the museum that began Wednesday shortly before 1 p.m., when the suspect, identified as 88-year-old James W. von Brunn of Annapolis, began firing a .22-caliber rifle at the chest of a security guard before other guards returned fire.
Mr. von Brunn was ...