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Museum Shooter 1X Lived In Hayden

Item: Lone gunman kills security guard at Holocaust Museum in Washington/CNN.com. More coverage here

A dark chapter in North Idaho history re-opened Wednesday in Washington, DC. Holocaust Museum shooting suspect James Von Brunn (pictured) is not only a fervent racist with Neo-Nazis ties but once lived in Hayden as well. Von Brunn, 88, is the shooting suspect in the Holocaust Museum. He allegedly shot and killed a guard at the museum before he was shot and injured by other guards and taken into custody. Authorities say he is in critical condition. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which helped bring down the North Idaho-based Aryan Nations in a civil suit which bankrupted that organization, identified Von Brunn as having a long history of "associations with prominent neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers"/KXLY. More here. And: SR story here. And: Washington Post story on Von Brunn.

Question: How will this national story affect North Idaho's attempt to rid itself of the Aryan Nations shadow?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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