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Holten Richmond Middle 8th-Graders at Holocaust Museum Shooting
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by cyn.khoo | June 10, 2009 at 11:43 am
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Hundreds of eighth-graders from Holten Richmond Middle School in Danvers were present during the Holocaust Museum shooting June 10, 2009 in Washington, DC, having come for an annual school trip.
A gunman identified as known white supremacist James Wenneker von Brunn shot two people at the museum, including a security guard who passed away and has been identified as Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. The gunman himself was shot and is now in "serious condition".
The students from Holten Richmond Middle School were not near the shooting and "were never in any danger," said Richard Warren, director of finance and administration for the Danvers Public Schools."We understand that all of our students are safe and that they were bused away," Warren said. "We are not sure if they were in the museum or whereabouts, but they were never in any danger."
Sandy Perkins, whose daughter Abigail was present at the shooting, had spoken to her shortly after.
The teenager told her mother that the students heard several gunshots before they were evacuated from the building to buses outside the museum.
The students left for Mount Vernon after the shooting.
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at 07:42 on June 11th, 2009
That will leave a mark and some trauma.
at 00:52 on June 12th, 2009
Yeah...I just wonder where exactly they were in the museum when the shooting happened.