A federal grand jury just indicted 89 year-old James Wenneker Von Brunn for the June 10, 2009 murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns, a guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

In addition to first-degree murder charges under D.C. law, the indictment charges Von Brunn with assault, violating federal civil rights laws, committing federal and District hate crimes, and weapons violations.

Von Brunn was originally charged in a criminal complaint one day after he was apprehended, and while he was hospitalized.

  • Criminal Complaint (U.S. v. Von Brunn), June 11, 2009
  • Federal Criminal Civil Rights Violations
  • Civil Rights Center
  • In Note, More Clues to Holocaust Museum Killing, New York Times, (Jun. 11, 2009)
  • Child Porn Found on Computer Of Shooting Suspect, Court Told, Washington Post (Jun. 19, 2009)

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