United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the day after the shooting.
LocationUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
DateJune 10, 2009 (2009-06-10)
12:50 p.m.[1] (EDT)
Attack type
Shooting, hate crime
WeaponsWinchester Model 1906 .22-caliber rifle[2]
Deaths1[3]
Injured2 (including the perpetrator)[4][5]
PerpetratorJames Wenneker von Brunn[3]
MotiveAntisemitism, Holocaust denial

At approximately 12:50 p.m. on June 10, 2009, 88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with a slide-action rifle and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other special police officers returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.[1][4][5][6]

Von Brunn was charged in federal court on June 11, 2009, with first-degree murder and firearms violations.[7] On July 29, 2009, von Brunn was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts.[8] Included in the indictment were three hate crime charges, as well as four charges which made him eligible for the death penalty.[9][10] In September 2009, a judge ordered von Brunn to undergo a competency evaluation to determine whether or not he could stand trial.[11] On January 6, 2010, von Brunn died of natural causes while awaiting trial.[12]

Von Brunn was a white supremacist, Holocaust denier, and neo-Nazi. He had previously been convicted of entering the Federal Reserve Building with various weapons in 1981 and attempting to place the members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, who he considered to be treasonous, under citizen's arrest.[6][13]

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  4. ^ a b "Guard Slain in Museum Shootout ID'd; Gunman Hospitalized". WJLA-TV. 2009-06-10. Archived from the original on 2009-06-13. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  5. ^ a b Wilgoren, Debbi; Branigin, William (2009-06-10). "2 People Shot at U.S. Holocaust Museum". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  6. ^ a b Del Quentin Wilber, Von Brunn, white supremacist Holocaust museum shooter, dies Archived 2017-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, Washington Post (January 7, 2010), B01.
  7. ^ "Criminal Complaint (U.S v. James Wenneker von Brunn)". FindLaw. 2009-06-11. Archived from the original on 2009-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
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  9. ^ Wilber, Del Quentin (2009-07-29). "Holocaust Museum Shooter Indicted on First-Degree Murder". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  10. ^ "James Von Brunn Indicted for Murder of Special Police Officer Stephen Johns and Hate Crimes Charges for Attack on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" (Press release). Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2009-07-29. Archived from the original on 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  11. ^ "North Carolina: Shooting Defendant Is Transferred". The New York Times. Associated Press. 2009-09-28. pp. A23. Archived from the original on 2015-11-08. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  12. ^ Pilkington, Ed (January 7, 2010). "Holocaust museum shooting suspect dies". The Guardian. London: guardian.co.uk. Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2010.
  13. ^ "Suspect is seized in Capital in threat at Federal Reserve". The New York Times. United Press International. 1981-12-08. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2017-02-20.

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