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Two Shot at Holocaust Museum in D.C.


By David Stout, The New York Times


The suspect in the shooting ascribes to a conspiracy theory involving Jews, Blacks, and other minority groups.
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WASHINGTON — An elderly manwalked into the Holocaust Museum, one of the capital’s most-visited sites, shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday and opened fire with a shoulder weapon or pistol, wounding a security guard before being shot and disabled himself, officials said.

The gunman was identified by NBC News as James W. von Brunn, a man in his late 80s who embraces a far-reaching conspiracy theory involving Jews, blacks and other minority groups, according a Web site he maintains. Early reports indicated that he lives in eastern Maryland.

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