Mayor: US Holocaust Museum Shooting Isolated Incident

World | June 10, 2009, Wednesday // 23:57
Bulgaria: Mayor: US Holocaust Museum Shooting Isolated Incident The museum is near the National Mall and just a few blocks from the White House. Photo by Getty Images

The shooting of a security the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by an elderly gunman, believed linked to an anti-Jewish website, has been called an "extremely isolated incident" by Washington mayor.

"I think this is an extremely isolated incident," Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty said.

"In these days and times you never know when someone is going to grab a gun and use it in an inappropriate way as was done today."

The suspect in the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday that left one guard dead has been identified as James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist from Maryland, two law enforcement officials told CNN.

The man has been linked to a website that expresses anti-government and anti-Jewish sentiments.

 

 

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