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| Two people shot near US Holocaust Museum | |
| 2009-06-11 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Two people were shot at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on Wednesday, when a gunman opened fire on the building sparking panic in the heart of the capital's tourist area, officials and witnesses said. Sergeant David Schlosser, a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said a gunman entered the museum and fired, and security guards returned fire. He said he believed one of the security guards was shot.
But in a hastily convened press conference at the scene, neither Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty nor the city's police chief Cathy Lanier would confirm the gunman's identity. "It appears to be a lone gunman who entered into the museum and opened fire with what appears to be a rifle at this point," said Lanier. "We have no confirmation on any identity. That's going to take a little bit of time." Stephanie Geraghty, 28, who had been visiting the museum, said the shooter appeared to be a white male carrying a silver gun. "I heard the first shot, it sounded like something had been dropped from the upper stories down," she told Reuters. "The next two came really fast -- bam bam. At that point everyone took off, chaos, running." The FBI said it had dispatched its National Capital Response Squad, which deals with such emergencies in the Washington area, to the site. Television pictures showed a heavy police presence outside the museum. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 uh huh...his SSI got cut. Right |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-06-11 19:57 |
| #10 He's wrong, but delving deeper it's reported, He complained his social security was cut, and "He was living hand to mouth. If true why was his social security cut so he's starving? That needs to be found out , was it, and if it was who did it? A man starving is a desperate man, perhaps this was a "Suicide by Cop" that did'nt quite work out. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-11 19:29 |
| #9 Racism isn't "right" or "left" Yep, EC, it's a tough argument to win when facing counter-examples like Thomas Sowell. Or Tiger Woods. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-06-11 19:15 |
| #8 Racism isn't "right" or "left" Just plain idiotic |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-06-11 15:14 |
| #7 Thanks Nimble - my education continues.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-06-11 14:15 |
| #6 Kennedy most assuredly di not push civil rights legislation through. That was Everett Dirksen (R-Ill) |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-06-11 13:06 |
| #5 But Jack - the MSM has been shoveling down everyone's througt that the NAZIs were on the right for the past few decades. Same as they have portrayed the KKK as a right wing organization (just ask Sen Byrd-D) when, in fact, the KKK (and most of the Jim Crow laws of the old south) were Democratic inventions and it was mostly the Democrats who fought the Civil Rights Act of the 60's (which the MSM give the Dems credit for) tooth-and-nail (except when Kennedy pushed it through). Closer to say Von Brunn and Wright are on the same 'Racist' team - just different squads. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-06-11 11:18 |
| #4 Von Brunn and Jeremiah Wright play in the same league; only difference is the team colors. |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-06-11 11:01 |
| #3 Hates Bush and NeoCons? How can that be? All the lefty blogs are glowing with glee that this proves the DHS report on "right wing terrorism" was correct. But they forget that Nazism was a socialist-workers collectivist party and that Von Brunn and Jeremiah Wright had more in common with the left and each other than either of them would want to admit. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-06-11 10:28 |
| #2 Holocaust Museum shooter von Brunn a 9/11 'truther' who hated 'neo-cons', Bush, McCain |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-06-11 02:27 |
| #1 You don't suppose the 88 year old shooter, James W. von Brunn, had a German WWII conection? |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2009-06-11 02:02 |