A security officer receives flowers from a man to be placed with the others at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., a day after a shooting left a security guard dead and the gunman wounded. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
A man prays across the street from the Holocaust museum. (Shawn Thew / EPA)
Flowers are placed in front of the Holocaust museum, where a security guard was killed Wednesday. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
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Shooting suspect James W. von Brunn, 88, who was described by the Anti-Defamation League and other watchers of hate groups as a longtime white supremacist and anti-Semite. He was shot during the attack and is in critical condition. (Talbot County Sheriff’s Office via The Star-Democrat / AP)
Museum guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, 39, of Temple Hills, Md., was shot in the attack and later died. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum / Associated Press)
William Parsons, left, chief of staff of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, right, prepare to address reporters after the shooting. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
Law enforcement authorities swarmed to the museum. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
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Sara Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Joseph Rosboschil, head of security at the museum, address the media. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Traffic coming from Virginia over the 14th Street Bridge is blocked after the shooting. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)
A police officer in Maryland talks to a motorist outside an Annapolis condominium building where shooting suspect James W. von Brunn was thought to live. (Steve Ruark / Associated Press)
Police search for evidence on 14th Street outside the museum. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
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Police gather in front of the museum after the shooting. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Police and SWAT team officers prepare outside the museum. (Matthew Cavanaugh / EPA)
Police and FBI officers secure the area outside the museum. (Matthew Cavanaugh / EPA)
A National Park Service helicopter flies in front of the
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A National Park Service helicopter hovers over the Holocaust Memorial Museum as workers on top of the Bureau of Engraving building look on. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Police officers suit up in body armor. (Shawn Thew / EPA)
Law enforcement officers stand outside the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., after shots were exchanged between a gunman and security guards. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
Mayor of Washington, D.C., Adrian Fenty, center, speaks at a news conference outside the Holocaust museum in Washington after a gunman opened fire at the museum. (Michael Reynolds / EPA)
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, right, and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier brief reporters about the shooting that took place at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)