FBI agents seized a rifle, 100 hollow-point bullets, life-insurance paperwork and a handwritten will from the Annapolis, Md., apartment of James von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist accused of killing a black guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week, according to search warrant records filed Tuesday in Maryland U.S. District Court.
Computers, financial records, personal correspondence, a note “regarding plant care,” books and a “painting of what appears to be Hitler and Jesus” were also taken, along with dozens of other items, the documents say.
Von Brunn, who was living with his son and soon-to-be daughter-in-law, is charged in Washington federal court with two counts of murder in the death of Steven Tyrone Johns, whom he’s accused of shooting June 10, after charging into the museum.
Officers shot von Brunn in the face. He’s hospitalized in the Washington area and is in critical condition, according to court records filed this week. He’s scheduled to make a court appearance Monday.
The affidavit describes von Brunn as espousing “hate speech directed specifically toward Jews for an extensive period of time.” He apparently wrote a book about the government being run by Jewish people who wanted to “extinguish the white race.”
The Baltimore Sun
