Back Tiroteo en el Museo Conmemorativo del Holocausto en Washington D. C. Spanish פיגוע הירי במוזיאון השואה בוושינגטון די. סי. (2009) HE United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting SIMPLE
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| Location | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. |
| Date | June 10, 2009 12:50 p.m.[1] (EDT) |
Attack type | Murder by shooting, hate crime |
| Weapons | Winchester Model 1906 .22-caliber rifle[2] |
| Deaths | 1[3] |
| Injured | 2 (including the perpetrator)[4][5] |
| Perpetrator | James Wenneker von Brunn[3] |
| Motive | Antisemitism, Holocaust denial |
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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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CNNwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Guard Slain in Museum Shootout ID'd; Gunman Hospitalized". WJLA-TV. June 10, 2009. Archived from the original on June 13, 2009. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
- ^ a b Wilgoren, Debbi; Branigin, William (June 10, 2009). "2 People Shot at U.S. Holocaust Museum". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Criminal Complaint (U.S v. James Wenneker von Brunn)". FindLaw. June 11, 2009. Archived from the original on June 14, 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2009.
- ^ https://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/von-brunn-indictment.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Wilber, Del Quentin (July 29, 2009). "Holocaust Museum Shooter Indicted on First-Degree Murder". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
- ^ "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. July 29, 2009. Archived from the original on May 12, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
- ^ "North Carolina: Shooting Defendant Is Transferred". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 28, 2009. pp. A23. Archived from the original on November 8, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Suspect is seized in Capital in threat at Federal Reserve". The New York Times. United Press International. December 8, 1981. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2017.