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Talbot County Sheriff, via The Star-Democrat and AP.

Undated photo of von Brunn.

James von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who was quickly identified as the suspect in yesterday's killing of a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, is being charged with murder and other crimes, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Adrian Fenty just announced.

Von Brunn, as NPR's Allison Keyes reports:

Has a racist, anti-Semitic Web site and wrote a book titled Kill the Best Gentile. In 1983, he was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board. He was arrested two years earlier outside the room where the board was meeting, carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun. At the time, police said von Brunn wanted to take the members hostage because of high interest rates and the nation's economic difficulties.