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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Man, 88, charged with murder in museum shooting

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  • This undated photograph provided by the Talbot County Sheriff Office on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, shows James von Brunn. Law enforcement officials said von Brunn, a white supremacist, was under investigation in a shooting inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Talbot County Sheriff Office via The Star-Democrat)
  • Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, right, Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, left, and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office hold a press conference to update the public on the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 11, 2009. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
  • Police offers examine the gun shots at the crime scene at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 11, 2009, where a security guard was killed during a shooting yesterday. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
  • Police stand outside U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Authorities say a security guard was killed when a gunman opened fire at the museum.
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Joseph Persichini Jr., assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, wipes his brow in front of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Authorities responded within minutes of the shooting.
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Toby Behr and wife Sandra were reunited about 3 1/2 hours after a deadly shooting at the museum. The couple, from Johannesburg, were on separate floors of the museum and lost each other when the museum was evacuated.

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By Michael Drost and Joseph Weber

UPDATED:

The 88-year-old anti-Semitic gunman charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a security guard Wednesday at the U.S. National Holocaust Museum also said President Obama is controlled by Jews, according to an FBI affidavit released Thursday.

"Obama was created by Jews," the suspected shooter James W. von Brunn wrote in a notebook recovered by police, according to the affidavit. "Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do."

Mr. von Brunn, of Annapolis, is being charged with murder and killing with a firearm in a federal facility, said Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier.

"You want my weapons — this is how you'll get them," Mr. von Brunn also wrote, according to the affidavit. "The Holocaust is a lie."

Click here to see the redacted affidavit.

Joseph Persichini Jr., assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, said officials also are considering additional charges related to hate crimes and civil rights violations.

"We need to send a message that this country does not authorize or approve any act that is attached to hatred in America," he said.

Mr. von Brunn entered the museum shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday and fatally shot security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, 39, of Temple Hills.

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