Hearing set in Holocaust museum shooting

Washington Post

WASHINGTON — A hearing in U.S. District Court is scheduled for this afternoon to update the court on the health of James von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist charged with murder in the shooting death of a security officer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and to determine how to proceed with the case, officials said Sunday.

Authorities said von Brunn shot Stephen Johns in the chest with a rifle shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday at the museum’s entrance. Two other guards immediately returned fire, and von Brunn was struck in the face, authorities said.

At a hearing Thursday, authorities told the court that von Brunn was in “critical but stable condition” at George Washington University Hospital and that he would likely survive.