Holocaust Museum Washington DC – 2 Shot

UPDATE: The Holocaust Museum guard who was shot earlier today has died.

UPDATE: The man police say was injured in a shootout with guards at the National Holocaust Museum has a long history with anti-semitic and anti-government violence, according to websites and documents.

James Von Brunn, 88, is the author of “Kill the Best Gentiles: A new, hard-hitting expose of the Jew conspiracy to destroy the white gene-pool,” according to the Web site holywesternempire.org.

Von Brunn uses the website to praise war veterans and to issue treatises rife with stereotypes blaming Jewish people for the bulk of the world’s problems.

Von Brunn was charged with armed burglary, according to a 1981 article in the Associated Press, for entering the Federal Reserve Board building with a sawed-off shot gun.

A bio on the “Holy Western Empire” Web site says von Brunn lives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Original Story ————–

Authorities say at least two people have been shot at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes says a person walked into the museum with a rifle and shot a guard. Hughes says the shooter was also shot.

Reports said the suspect first shot a security guard, and that another guard returned fire, wounding the alleged shooter.

There are conflicting reports about how many people were wounded. Another law enforcement official said three people were shot, but that there are no fatalities.

“The scene is secure,” the source said.

Police and other law enforcement, including the FBI’s Terrorism Task Force, are surrounding the museum site.