The museum has been the target of a planned attack and a fatal shooting . In 2002 , a federal jury convicted white supremacists Leo Felton and Erica Chase of planning to bomb a series of institutions associated with American black and Jewish communities , including the USHMM . On June 10 , 2009 , 88-year-old James von Brunn , an anti-Semite , shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns . Special Police Officer Johns and von Brunn were both seriously wounded and transported by ambulance to the George Washington University Hospital . Special Police Officer Johns later died of his injuries ; he is permanently honored in an official memorial at the USHMM . Von Brunn , who had a previous criminal record , died during his criminal trial in federal court , in Butner federal prison in North Carolina
shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum