A federal grand jury included charges in an indictment filed Wednesday that could earn the death penalty for an 89-year-old white supremacist accused in the fatal shooting of a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The seven-count indictment includes four charges that could mean the death penalty for James von Brunn, as well as bringing hate crimes charges against him.
Authorities say von Brunn shot and killed guard Stephen T. Johns as Johns held the door to the museum open for the elderly man. Other guards returned fire, hitting von Brunn in the face in the June 10 shootout. Von Brunn survived and remains hospitalized.
Von Brunn is a known white supremacist who writes that the Jews control the media and the White House.
– Freeman Klopott
