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June 12, 2009

Von Brunn Charged with Murder in Holocaust Museum Shooting
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The white supremacist James von Brunn has been charged with murder for
Wednesday’s shooting death of a security guard at the Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, DC. The security guard, Stephen Johns, was
thirty-nine years old. On Thursday, Johns’s mother, Jacqueline Carter,
spoke of her son’s life.

Jacqueline Carter: “He was just a beautiful person. He liked his job,
and he worked a lot. And it would be just like him to try to, you know,
protect people from harm.”

Von Brunn remains in critical condition from wounds sustained when other
security guards returned fire. Meanwhile, on Thursday the FBI
acknowledged it had been “aware” of Von Brunn’s hateful writings about
religious and ethnic minorities but that it never launched a criminal
probe.



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