James von Brunn

Accused Holocaust museum shooter dies

2010-01-06 14:03:00

The 89-year-old white supremacist charged in a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum died Wednesday in North Carolina, where he'd been held while awaiting trial, authorities said. James von Brunn died shortly before 1 p.m. at a local...

Accused Holocaust Museum Shooter Dies In Prison

2010-01-06 00:00:00

The 89-year-old white supremacist charged with a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum died Wednesday in North Carolina where he'd been held at a prison hospital while awaiting trial, authorities said. At the federal prison in Butner, N.C.,...

Homeland Security: Hate is Heating Up

2009-06-10 00:00:00

Before blood stained the Holocaust Museum floor an extremist killed an abortion practitioner in church. Before that, a depressed, laid-off Binghamton resident killed thirteen people in an upstate New York immigration center. Before Barack Obama took the...

Security Guard Dead After Holocaust Museum Shooting

2009-06-10 13:26:00

(WGN-AM)- A gunman exchanged fire with security guards inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. A law enforcement official said that James Von Brunn, an elderly white supremacist, is being investigated as the prime...

Shooter kills security guard

2009-06-11 00:00:00

-- An elderly Maryland man with a long history of ties to neo-Nazi organizations allegedly walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday and opened fire, killing a security guard, according to law enforcement officials and civil rights...

Holocaust Museum Shooting Analysis: Do whites feel threatened?

2009-06-11 15:09:00

Crazies. Lone nut jobs. Isolated loonies. Those are frequent descriptions of people like James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist who opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and killed a black guard. Others believe he represents...

St. Louisan is Suspect in Holocaust Museum Murder

2009-06-10 00:00:00

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The gunman in an attack at the U.S. Holocaust Museum is originally from St. Louis. James Von Brunn graduated from Clayton High School in 1938 and Washington University in 1943. His degree was in Journalism. Von Brunn, who is...

Judge says Holocaust Museum suspect can't appear

2009-06-15 00:00:00

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge says the white supremacist accused of killing a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to appear in court. At a hearing Monday, prosecutor Nicole Waid said James von Brunn is in critical but stable...

Investigators probe past of Holocaust Museum gunman

2009-06-11 09:35:00

WASHINGTON -- Authorities are learning more about the troubling life of 88-year-old James W. Von Brunn, the self-proclaimed racist and ex-convict who killed a guard in a gunfight at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Witnesses say the gunfight lasted only...

Alleged Holocaust Museum Shooter Has Alabama Connection

2009-06-10 00:00:00

While the name James Wenneker von Brunn may be new to most people reading and watching the news, it's ringing a bell with some in Montgomery. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been keeping a close eye on him over the years. James Wenneker von Brunn ran...

Holocaust Museum Shooting Suspect Had Idaho Ties

2009-06-10 18:59:00

The suspect in the deadly U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting in Washington, D.C., lived briefly in northern Idaho. According to a public records search, James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, lived in Hayden, Idaho, in 2004 and 2005....

Gunman shoots, kills, guard at Holocaust Museum

2009-06-10 17:13:00

An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said....

James von Brunn

2010-01-06 14:48:04