The 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum died Wednesday in a prison hospital.
James von Brunn died shortly before 1 p.m. at North Carolina's Butner Federal Prison, prison spokesperson Denise Simmons said.
Von Brunn's lawyer, A.J. Kramer, called the death "a sad end to a tragic situation," but declined further comment.
The elderly suspect had been awaiting trial for the killing of security guard Stephen T. Johns, 39, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June.
Von Brunn had been wounded by return fire but survived.
Officials at the prison hospital had previously said chronic medical problems had complicated a psychiatric evaluation for the suspect, a white supremacist, who prior to the shooting had written racist and anti-Semitic screeds on the internet.
Writings attributed to von Brunn on the internet say the Holocaust was a hoax and decry a Jewish conspiracy to "destroy the white gene pool."
In 1983, he was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board and served more than six years in prison.
He was arrested two years earlier carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun outside the room where the board was meeting.
James von Brunn died shortly before 1 p.m. at North Carolina's Butner Federal Prison, prison spokesperson Denise Simmons said.
Von Brunn's lawyer, A.J. Kramer, called the death "a sad end to a tragic situation," but declined further comment.
The elderly suspect had been awaiting trial for the killing of security guard Stephen T. Johns, 39, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June.
Von Brunn had been wounded by return fire but survived.
Officials at the prison hospital had previously said chronic medical problems had complicated a psychiatric evaluation for the suspect, a white supremacist, who prior to the shooting had written racist and anti-Semitic screeds on the internet.
Writings attributed to von Brunn on the internet say the Holocaust was a hoax and decry a Jewish conspiracy to "destroy the white gene pool."
In 1983, he was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board and served more than six years in prison.
He was arrested two years earlier carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun outside the room where the board was meeting.
taken from: cbc.ca
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