"A government official says the 89-year-old man accused of a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum has died in a prison hospital.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, says James von Brunn died at a federal complex in Butner, North Carolina.

Von Brunn had been awaiting trial for the killing of security guard Stephen T. Johns at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10. Von Brunn had been wounded by return fire but survived."

WaPo says Von Brunn was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly before 1 p.m. Cause TBD.

Other things are happening beyond the Red Line, of course.  Read about them after the jump.

• James von Brunn, the crazy old man who shot and killed a security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum two weeks ago, was released from George Washington University Hospital where he was recovering from retaliatory gunshot wounds.  Prosecutors say he is too weak to appear in court but hope for an appearance early next week.
• President Obama had a busy day.  He spent the early part of the afternoon holding a press conference and condemning Iran's elections while still trying to garner support for universal health care.  Then, to prove he is the coolest dad in the nation, he hung out with Nick Jonas from the Jonas Brothers.  The two met with a group of diabetic children in order to raise support for diabetes research, but the reason was probably lost on Sasha and Malia.  Because when Dad hangs out with your celebrity crush, you don't really care why.
• The governor of South Carolina is going to work tomorrow.  After leaving his office on Thursday afternoon, Mark Stanford disappeared in his SUV and supposedly went hiking along the Appalachian Trail.  People got concerned after not hearing from him for 5 days and when Sanford realized that his "vacation" had become a missing persons case, he decided to come home.
• And finally, DCist is reporting that WaPo humorist Gene Weingarten has taken the buyout.  During an online chat today, he admitted that the Post had offered to rehire him on contract but he'd rather write books and movies.  After winning a Pulitzer, there's not much left to achieve in daily journalism.

In a Washington Post story filed this afternoon, Holocaust Museum shooter James W. Von Brunn was apparently more than just a racist hater d-bag. He was also into kiddie porn. Law enforcement types found the porn on a computer Von Brunn used in the Annapolis apartment he shared with his son and son's fiancee.

The new discovery was filed in D.C. Superior Court U.S. District Court as part of the on-going murder case against Von Brunn.

The Post writes:

"FBI agents said they recovered the desktop computer during a search of the Annapolis apartment where von Brunn had lived for the past two years. The pornography was disclosed in a search warrant affidavit seeking to make a more thorough inspection of the computer. Authorities did not disclose the type or extent of the child pornography they found on the computer during their first search.

Agents also recovered from the apartment a 30-30 rifle, other computers, floppy discs, memory cards, cellphones, a handwritten will and what appeared to be a painting of Hitler and Jesus, they wrote in court papers."

Agents also disclosed that they found tons of ammo in Von Brunn's shitty car parked outside the museum.

Today, the Washington Post reported that the arraignment for alleged Holocaust Museum shooter James Wenneker Von Brunn has been postponed. The reason for the delay was obvious: Von Brunn remains hospitalized trying to recover from being shot in the face. But the court documents—obtained by City Desk and everyone else—still provide a few details concerning Von Brunn.

Really just two details emerge: He was big on the self pimp even within the rantings he left inside his shitty car. And he probably wasn't the best roommate.

The court documents (which you can read here in PDF form) provide a detailed narrative of events leading up to the shooting death of Holocaust Museum security guard Steven Tyrone Johns.

After the shooting, officers searched Von Brunn's 2002 red Hyundai double parked outside of the museum. Officers found a notebook which included such rantings as:

"You want my weapons–this is how you'll get them. The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews...Jews control the mass media."

And then: Von Brunn plugs his own shitty website: "See: holywesternempire.org." How new media!

Officers also searched Von Brunn's Annapolis apartment. This was not his apartment. Documents show that it was leased to Brandy Teel and her fiancee Erik Von Brunn (James's son).

"Ms. Teel stated that James Wenneker Von Brunn moved to the apartment approximately two years ago and it is his only known address.... James Wenneker Von Brunn has his own room and pays rent in the amount of $400.00 per month. Brandy also stated that when James moved to the apartment approximately two years ago he came with two weapons, a 30/30 rifle and a .22 caliber rifle."

Talk about a red flag. This would be total deal breaker for any Columbia Heights group house. Erik Von Brunn has condemned his father's actions.

The court document goes on to state: "Recovered from the defendant's bedroom was .22 caliber ammunition and a 30/30 rifle. Ledgers, journals, and manuscripts were also recovered."

*photo by Dallas South.

In the wake of Wednesday’s Holocaust Museum shooting, this story seems even creepier: The Government Accountability Project says racial slurs were scrawled on the walls of the World Bank’s Legal Affairs offices. 

By tonight, I admit I had basically moved on. I ate dinner. I watched bad TV. I listened to this awesome new Fiery Furnaces song.

Then I stumbled on the Facebook page dedicated to the slain security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns. There will be some other tragedy today, tomorrow or this weekend. Yesterday morning, a woman died in a fire in NE. At around 5 p.m. yesterday, two people were shot at 1st and M Street NW. It didn't take long for people to add their crazy shit to the list of crazy shit everyone gets outraged over.

But before you get outraged over the next big thing. Please read the pages devoted to Stephen Tyrone Johns.

Here's a sample:

"Im pretty sure he was the same guard who welcomed me after I picked up my cell phone from the security check today...looked like he was a good man. I will miss that welcome dearly. The other man who was working with him eariler also helped me get out of the second floor after the shooting. I am glad he was still around to help me evacute."

"I worked beside him at the Holocaust Museum. He was a wonderful, brave man, and he will be deeply missed. RIP Big John"

"Just saw his young son interviewed in front of his house on ABC Nightline. Crushing. I hope a fund is established for the family."

"I only missed the shooting by minutes and showed up for my shift as security was just starting to seal off the streets and asked me to help direct people away. Johns was a nice man and I can't believe he's dead in the 24 hours since I last saw him."

"Stephen I remember you every morning helping me when I came in to work, bumbling through the scanner with my wheelchair, always there to help....always there with a smile. Always helping with the groups of children visiting. I will miss you friend... and know that you are now at peace...may my prayers forever be with you and your family."

"I remember you from my first time to the museum a few weeks ago. You were helping take care of a holy place. God bless!"

"I remember Mr. John's face from my visit to the museum a few months ago."

"Big John, I'm gonna miss your smiling face, you always greeted us employees with a smile that I will truly never forget, when I root for the skins this fall, I will think of you, whenever I enter the sacred halls of my Museum, I will think of you, may the Lord in Heaven take you into his precious arms, he truly has a soldier in his army."

5:28 p.m. Update: Von Brunn appears to be the classic drifter with stops in New York City, Maryland, Florida, California, New Hampshire and back to Maryland. NY Daily News interviews his ex-wife: "'He used to make the statement that he was going out with his boots on,' she said."

"Because of the arson attack in California, we were afraid for the baby's safety — and our own. We bought a house near Hanover, NH. I acquired a real estate broker's shingle. I listed several commercial properties including a Holiday Inn, and some prime acreage. Again, money was tight. Brokers were folding their tents. I supplemented my income by free-lancing layouts for local advertisers and an ad agency there. I sold two oils at a Dartmouth exhibit; another was stolen. In the evening I used Dartmouth library to research the Federal Reserve System. I met a conservative professor of Economics and knew I was on to something after learning the FED was a private corporation. Unable to earn a living, I was now on the run.

My wife, despairing of my unprofitable obsession, wanted to return to Maryland, which we had fled 10 years earlier. In Maryland I placed my R-E brokers license with Coldwell Banker, in Annapolis. Brokers in Maryland also were falling like autumn leaves. I set a record for listings, but interest rates discouraged buyers. Banks were foreclosing, repossessing valuable properties for a song. I attended a real-estate brokers' meeting in D.C. Paul Volcker, FED Chairman, was keynote speaker. One of his memorable remarks to the large nervous audience was: "You guys are going to hate me because tomorrow I'm going to bankrupt you." Sure enough, there followed a repeat of the Florida fiasco. Prime-rate was raised and America was plunged into an even deeper depression. 'Kill the Best Gentiles !'"

4:30 p.m. Update: City Desk just obtained the police report filed in Superior Court from Von Brunn's kidnapping case. It reads:

"On 12-7-81, [unreadable] at approximately 1155 hours the defendant entered the Federal Reserve Board located at 20th and C St. NW, went to the second floor of that location and was confronted by W-1 [witness one], who is employed at that location as a security guard. The defendant then placed a .38 Smith and Wesson, five shot revolver in W-1's stomach. W-1 [called]  other security personnel for assistance and the defendant was eventually disarmed."

The police account goes on to state:

"Also confiscated from the defendant were a Remington 12 gauge shotgun, which he had concealed under his coat, a hunting knife, and a camera case which the defendant advised contained a bomb. Only books were found in the camera case.

Members of the Metropolitan Police Department were summoned and the defendant was subsequently arrested.

After being advised of the miranda warning the defendant gave a written statement (See PD 118) advising that his actions were politically motivated and that he intended to take the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and its members hostage in order to allow to voice his opinions over the media."

The police document notes that Von Brunn refused his one phone call.

4:22 p.m. Update: Superior Court: Von Brunn in his kidnapping case dumped his first defense attorney and tried to fight case pro se. He eventually got another defense attorney in the summer of '82.

4:02 p.m. Update Von Brunn writes about getting a DWI on the Eastern Shore:

"At the police station they said I was arrested for DWI. I said that I wanted my attorney contacted. They said first you're going to be booked. I had never been arrested before. I didn't like the idea of giving them my fingerprints and being photographed. They insisted. It was hot. I was getting drunker. There were five cops and the Sheriff. They insisted. I refused. They grappled me up from the chair and slammed me face to the wall. When they pulled me around there was the Sheriff with his Polaroid. I hit the camera out of his hands. The cops were all over me with mace and clubs. They kicked me down the stairs, then locked me up....

"I lost my drivers license. Lost my presidency at the Academy. My family was mortified. I was humiliated and ashamed. I raked the leaves in the prison yard, worked on Judge Mace's homestead. He regularly used State labor, and State materials to fill and maintain his driveway, paint his house, tend his garden and foliage. I developed a staph infection in my neck. The prison doctor recommended that I be released immediately. I served about 4 months."

After he got out, Von Brunn writes that he got a call from an old cellmate with an idea:

"I received a telephone call from Frankie Lew. He had occupied a cell next to mine in Cambridge. Frankie was a water man. His grip powerful as a steel trap, his hands gnarled, calloused, the fingers permanently bent from handling oyster tongs most of his life. He was about 35, his face scarred from barroom brawls where chains and pool cues were favorite weapons. He hated "nigras." He told me he'd go to Ocean City and wait for a mixed couple to appear on the Boardwalk. He'd scoot up ahead of them, then u-turn. When he approached the nigra he'd jam a knife into the guys gut. The Negro wouldn't feel it, kept walking till he collapsed. Frankie said he wanted to come up and see me."

It's unclear whether the two ever went through with the Ocean City plot.

Eventually there is this bit of racism from his long bio:

"Over my years of adversity, it became clear to me that a JEW strategy had emerged: "Kill the Best Gentiles !" The tactics were WAR & DEBT. My father's generation struggled through the Great War "to end all wars" and the Great Depression. One of my uncles was forced to take in washing and iron laundry. A dear family friend stole from the market to keep his young family fed. One of my father's boyhood pals shot himself, another attached a hose to the tailpipe of his auto and gassed himself. My Brit father-in-law, a Sandhurst grad, Oxford student and RFC officer, stole food from the A&P so his family could survive. I had earned decent wages in NYC but I was never financially secure. I was chased from one job to another for not genuflecting before God's Chosen. When a Jew CEO deliberately farts in a business meeting, to express his contempt, I seem to react unfavorably."

3:58 p.m. Update Von Brunn writes of his failed kidnapping attempt:

"Over the years Revisionists have asked me to write about my effort in 1981 to place the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (FED), under legal, non-violent citizens-arrest. The subject resides in my memory like old road-kill. What could have been a slam-bang victory turned into ignoble failure. Recalling all of this presents an onerous task. I am getting near the end of the diving board."

3:54 p.m. Update Salon has Von Brunn in his own words describing motivations behind '81 kidnapping attempt.

3:36 p.m. Update Nexis records show Von Brunn lives in an apartment in Annapolis, Maryland. At least he did in 2007. Before 2007, he lived in Easton, Maryland. DOB: 1920. His possible e-mails (via We Love DC).

3:29 p.m. Update According to a subsequent Post piece in '83, a D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced Von Brunn to a minimum term of "more than four years" for attempting kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board in 1981. The Post goes on to state that Von Brunn told authorities he wanted to hold board members accountable for country's economic woes.

3:18 p.m. Update: Eerie. This is the Post account of Von Brunn's trial in '83:

"A D.C. Superior Court jury yesterday convicted a New Hampshire man of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board, stemming from a 1981 incident in which the man was arrested at the board's headquarters carrying several weapons.

According to police, James Von Brunn, 61, of Lebanon, N.H., told them after his arrest that he wanted to take board members hostage....

Von Brunn entered the board's headquarters at 21st Street and Constitution Avenue NW with a bag slung over his shoulder. He was captured by a guard after running to the second floor, where the board was meeting. He was detained outside the board room and was carrying a revolver, a hunting knife and a sawed-off shotgun, police said.

The jury yesterday convicted Von Brunn of attempted kidnaping while armed, second-degree burglary, assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a pistol without a license and two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon."

2:55 p.m. Update: James W. Von Brunn's records in D.C. Superior Court show he was found guilty by a jury on March 2, 1983 after being charged with Assault w/ Deadly Weapon (gun) and Armed Burglary. It appears that there were 15 counts charged by prosecutors. The case opened in June 9, 1982. It is unclear what sentence he received but he was sentenced to a period of confinement. Check below for his own crazy-ass take on his Superior Court experience.

2: 41 p.m. Update MSNBC confirms name of alleged shooter: James W. Von Brunn.

2:10 p.m. Update: Shooter is allegedly a white male born in 1920. Sources: here. Alleged man's alleged's name: James W. Von Brunn. We Love DC comes up with some anti-Semitic stuff on a website by Von Brunn.

Website is full of hate; Holocaust written in quotes.

2:04 p.m. Update: Washington Post updates its piece on the Holocaust Museum shooting with witness interviews:

One witness, Dave Unruh, of Wichita, Kan., said he was waiting to enter the museum when he heard one gunshot, then a sequence of four or five gunshots. He said he then heard someone scream, "Hit the floor!." He and his wife, Karen, and their two teenage grandchildren hit the floor and were subsequently herded out of the building by authorities.

1:57 p.m. Update: CNN is reporting that a private security guard and another person were shot in the early afternoon at the Holocaust Museum. Both were taken to G.W. Hospital and are in serious condition:

Dave Pearson, a 6th grade teacher in the Washington, D.C., area, said he was on the museum's fourth floor when he heard a loud noise.

"At the time, we're visiting and all of a sudden there's like a boom, and all of a sudden they told us to stop where we're at," he told CNN's Ed Henry.

On the alleged shooter's alleged name's website, there's a bio. So far I haven't seen this guy confirmed as the alleged shooter. But here it is apparently written by the man himself. I'm only taking part of it:

"In 1981 Von Brunn attempted to place the treasonous Federal Reserve Board of Governors under legal, non-violent, citizens arrest. He was tried in a Washington, D.C. Superior Court; convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge. A Jew/Negro/White Court of Appeals denied his appeal. He served 6.5 years in federal prison."

WJLA is reporting that a gunman walked into the Holocaust Museum and started shooting. There are reports that two people were wounded.

"At least two people are wounded after a shootout at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Southwest Washington Wednesday afternoon, D.C. police assistant Chief Diane Groomes told ABC 7 News. Groomes said one person was shot inside the building and one person was shot outside. A third person may have been wounded.

D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes says a person walked into the museum with a rifle and shot a guard. Hughes says the shooter was also shot."

WTOP is reporting that the suspect was fired upon and shot by two security guards inside the museum. A third person was injured by flying glass. Both suspect and guard were taken to G.W. Hospital.

AP is reporting that there was a possible third shooting victim.

The Washington Post reports that police were notified at 12:52 p.m. about the shooting:

"U.S. Park Police said a gunman opened fire on the security guard and that other security guards returned fire. The gunman was reported wounded.

The shooting was reported to police at 12:52 p.m., and officers rushed to the scene just south of Independence Ave. bordering the Mall.

D.C. Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter said there was no immediate information on the shooter. Nor was it immediately clear serious the injuries were..."