Chicago, Ill., Jun 12, 2009 / 15:26 pm
Cardinal Francis George, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has decried the “appalling” shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. as a “deplorable act of violence.”
On Wednesday an 88-year-old man named James W. von Brunn reportedly opened fire on the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Security guards returned fire and critically injured von Brunn but not before he fatally wounded 39-year-old security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns.
In 1981 von Brunn was charged with trying to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board and was in prison until 1989, the Washington Post reports.