By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old man with ties to white supremacists entered the U.S. Holocaust Museum on 14th Street in downtown Washington shortly after noon Wednesday and opened fire and killed a guard, law enforcement authorities said.
Two other guards returned the fire and struck the shooter, seriously wounding him, according to Sgt. David Schlosser of the U.S. Park Police.
The gunman was identified by law enforcement as James W. von Brunn, 88, who is known to authorities as a white supremacist. The Washington Post reported that on ” a Web site he apparently maintains extolling a “Holy Western Empire,” von Brunn says he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, worked for 20 years as an advertising executive and film producer in New York and then became “an artist and author” living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.”
