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Slain guard opened door for suspect

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Jun. 11, 2009
The security guard shot to death at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened the door for the gunman, who then raised a rifle and killed him, authorities said today. Stephen Tyrone Johns was trying to help the man, police said. James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, will be charged...
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