Holocaust Museum Shooting: Washington, DC — June 10, 2009

A gunman armed with a "long gun" shot 2 people inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at approximately 12:50pm local time.

Three adult males were injured and 2 victims were transported to George Washington University Hospital with gun shot wounds.

Stephen Tyrone Johns, a 39-year-old museum security guard who was injured by the gunman, has died.

The suspected shooter is 89-year-old James W. von Brunn, a known white supremacist. Brunn is in critical condition in hospital.

The museum has been evacuated and closed and will remain closed on Thursday, June 11 in honor of Johns' death.

If you have any information on this case, call 1-202-278-2000.

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There are no words to express our grief and shock over today’s events at the Museum, which took the life of Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Officer Johns, who died heroically in the line of duty, served on the Museum’s security staff for six years. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Officer Johns’s family. We have made the decision to close the Museum Thursday, June 11, in honor of Officer Johns and our flags will be flown at half mast in his memory.

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