Museum Gunman Charged With Murder

By THEO EMERY and LIZ ROBBINS, New York Times
Thu, 06/11/2009 - 12:11pm

The police on Thursday charged James W. von Brunn with murder in the death of a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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