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deceased 06 january 2010 butner , north carolina burglary kidnapping , assault , weapons charges , and attempted st. louis , missouri advertising executive and producer , author imprisonment of six and half years mug shot of von brunn taken in 2009 elmer von brunn and hope grossemutter wenneker 11 july 1920 james von brunn
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james von brunn

james wenneker von brunn -lrb- july 11 , 1920 -- january 6 , 2010 -rrb- was an american man who perpetrated the united states holocaust memorial museum shooting in washington , d.c. on june 10 , 2009 .
security guard stephen tyrone johns was killed in the shooting , and von brunn was wounded by two security guards who returned fire .
von brunn was named the prime suspect in the shooting , and was charged with first-degree murder and firearms violations .
while awaiting trial , von brunn died on january 6 , 2010 .
von brunn was a white supremacist and holocaust denier who had written numerous antisemitic essays , created an antisemitic website called `` the holy western empire '' , and is the author of a 1999 self-published book , `` kill the best gentiles '' , which praises adolf hitler and denies the holocaust .
after the shooting , traces of his personal writings and works online were deleted from many websites , including askart.com , freerepublic and his personal user page on wikipedia where he was indefinitely blocked , the latter said to constitute `` a violation of policy of hate speech '' .
he also made posts expressing his opposition to the iraq war , and felt that the september 11 attacks were an `` inside job '' .
