DC Holocaust memorial reopens after mourning guard slain in attack at museum entrance

WASHINGTON — Liz Johnson showed up Friday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with 12 Girl Scouts in tow. None of them was alive when the Holocaust took place, but they were determined that a fatal shooting at the museum two days earlier wouldn’t keep them from supporting its mission.

DC Holocaust memorial set to reopen after mourning guard slain in attack at museum entrance

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is reopening Friday after a day of mourning for a guard killed in an attack that authorities say was carried out by a rifle-toting white supremacist.

Faced with threats, US Holocaust museum has focused heavily on security since inception

WASHINGTON — Armed guards, metal detectors and X-ray machines greet visitors to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Traffic barriers keep away trucks like the one that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Experts: Holocaust museum shooter reflects increasing racial violence from threatened whites

Crazies. Lone nut jobs. Isolated loonies. Those are frequent descriptions of people like James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist who opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and killed a black guard.

Man accused of Holocaust museum shooting spewed hate for decades, slain guard had opened door

WASHINGTON — James von Brunn carried a lifetime of hatred and an aging rifle to the entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, authorities say, and was met with a simple act of kindness: a security guard opening the door for him.

Slain Holocaust museum guard remembered as ‘teddy bear’ who went out of his way for others

TEMPLE HILLS, Md. — As an elderly white supremacist approached the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, security guard Steven T. Johns unknowingly held open the door — a final act that friends and family said Thursday was typical of his kindness for others.

Holocaust museum shooting signal of increasing violence from threatened whites, some say

Crazies. Lone nut jobs. Isolated loonies. Those are frequent descriptions of people like James von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist accused of opening fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and killing a black guard.

Elderly man charged with murder left signed anti-Semitic screed in car outside Holocaust Museum

WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old white supremacist was charged with murder Thursday, a day after officials said he left a signed anti-Semitic screed in his car outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, then gunned down a security guard who opened the door to let him in.

Officials: Anti-Semitic screed left in car of supremacist charged in Holocaust museum shooting

WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old white supremacist was charged with murder Thursday, a day after officials said he left a signed anti-Semitic screed in his car outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, then gunned down a security guard who opened the door to let him in.

DC Holocaust museum closed to honor guard who died stopping gunman identified as anti-Semite

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum was shuttered Thursday with its flags at half-staff as it mourned a guard who died stopping a rifle attack by a gunman authorities identified as an 88-year-old white supremacist.

Holocaust museum that bears witness to violence against Jews scene of bloodshed; 1 guard dead

WASHINGTON — The most prominent American museum bearing witness to violence against Jews was the scene of bloodshed, its doors breached by an assailant who opened fire with a rifle, killing a guard in an attack linked to a white supremacist’s hate.

Holocaust Museum to close for a day in honor of guard who was killed in shooting

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will be closed Thursday in tribute to the museum guard who was shot and killed by a gunman.

Gunman kills guard, is shot himself in gunfire at US Holocaust Museum in Washington

WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.

Holocaust museum shooting suspect has a history of seething anger as white supremacist

WASHINGTON — A frustrated artist and an angry man, the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting once tried to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve board, a “caper” thwarted when a guard captured him outside a board meeting carrying a bag stuffed with weapons.

Gunman, 88, opens fire at crowded Holocaust Museum and kills guard before being shot himself

WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.

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