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)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.”
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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.
Mr. von Brunn remains in critical condition at George Washington University Hospital. Police say five shots were exchange inside the museum lobby.
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Mr. von Brunn remains in critical condition at George Washington University Hospital. Police say five shots were exchange inside the museum lobby.
Mr. Johns opened the lobby door for Mr. von Brunn, who then shot him in the chest with a .22 caliber shotgun. Other officers working for the Wackenhut Services Inc. security company returned shots and dropped Mr. von Brunn.
“Stephen opened the door as he saw an elderly man coming in,” said Bill Parsons, the museum’s chief of staff. “He was caring about him, and he opened the door, and he was shot.”
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Joseph Weber is a congressional reporter, his first job upon coming to Washington in 1992. Mr. Weber joined The Washington Times in 2002 as a metro desk editor and ran the section for several years, working on such stories as the Virginia Tech massacre, the Supreme Court case on the District’s handgun law, the D.C. snipers and the 2008 presidential ...
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