Photos: Shooting at Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
Washington, D.C., police investigator George Klein Jr. photographs bullet strikes in one of the doors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., a day after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
A security officer receives flowers from a man to be placed with the others at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., a day after a shooting left a security guard dead and the gunman wounded. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
A man prays across the street from the Holocaust museum. (Shawn Thew / EPA)
Flowers are placed in front of the Holocaust museum, where a security guard was killed Wednesday. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
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Shooting suspect James W. von Brunn, 88, who was described by the Anti-Defamation League and other watchers of hate groups as a longtime white supremacist and anti-Semite. He was shot during the attack and is in critical condition. (Talbot County Sheriff’s Office via The Star-Democrat / AP)
Museum guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, 39, of Temple Hills, Md., was shot in the attack and later died. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum / Associated Press)
William Parsons, left, chief of staff of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, right, prepare to address reporters after the shooting. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
Law enforcement authorities swarmed to the museum. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
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Sara Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Joseph Rosboschil, head of security at the museum, address the media. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Traffic coming from Virginia over the 14th Street Bridge is blocked after the shooting. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)
A police officer in Maryland talks to a motorist outside an Annapolis condominium building where shooting suspect James W. von Brunn was thought to live. (Steve Ruark / Associated Press)
Police search for evidence on 14th Street outside the museum. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
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Police gather in front of the museum after the shooting. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Police and SWAT team officers prepare outside the museum. (Matthew Cavanaugh / EPA)
Police and FBI officers secure the area outside the museum. (Matthew Cavanaugh / EPA)
A National Park Service helicopter flies in front of the
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A National Park Service helicopter hovers over the Holocaust Memorial Museum as workers on top of the Bureau of Engraving building look on. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Police officers suit up in body armor. (Shawn Thew / EPA)
Law enforcement officers stand outside the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., after shots were exchanged between a gunman and security guards. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
Mayor of Washington, D.C., Adrian Fenty, center, speaks at a news conference outside the Holocaust museum in Washington after a gunman opened fire at the museum. (Michael Reynolds / EPA)
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, right, and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier brief reporters about the shooting that took place at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)