Stephen Tyrone Johns, a security officer of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, was shot dead by James von Brunn, the 89-year-old white supremacist, on Wednesday afternoon. Stephen Tyrone Johns, from Temple Hills, Maryland, has worked at the museum for six years. He was 39 years old.
“Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns died heroically in the line of duty today. There are no words to express our grief and shock over these events.” ” Holocaust Memorial said in a statement.
The museum will be closed Thursday and flags flown at half-staff in honor of Mr. Johns.
Our heartfelt condolences to Johns’s family and family!
