Police are confirming that the name of the suspect in a shooting at Washington, D.C.’s Holocaust Museum is James Von Brunn, a white supremacist, born 1920, says The Washington Post. 

On a rambling, racist and bitterly anti-semitic website a man who identifies himself as James W. von Brunn claims to be a former World War II PT boat captain who was decorated for his conduct in battle, and was an advertising executive and film producer in New York City.

He claims to be a member of Mensa, “the high-IQ society,” and in 1981 was convicted in D.C. Superior Court for an offense that is not made clear. He was “convicted by a Negro jury, Jew/Negro attorneys, and sentenced to prison for eleven years by a Jew judge. A Jew/Negro/White Court of Appeals denied his appeal. He served 6.5 years in federal prison.”

He says he is now an artist and author living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He refers on his website to “Marxist/Liberal/Jews bankers,” and provides this information in a poisonous biographical entry.

“Over my years of adversity, it became clear to me that a JEW strategy had emerged: “Kill the Best Gentiles!” The tactics were WAR & DEBT…I was chased from one job to another for not genuflecting before God’s Chosen. When a Jew CEO deliberately farts in a business meeting, to express his contempt, I seem to react unfavorably.”

According to the AP and Huffington Post, in 1983, Von Brunn 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.

The New York Daily News interviewed Von Brunn’s ex-wife who described him as an abusive alcoholic whose hatred against Jews and blacks “ate him alive like a cancer.”

The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said when she learned von Brunn allegedly acted on his anti-Semitic impulses, she thought about something he used to say when they were married.

“He used to make the statement that he was going out with his boots on,” she said. ”I took it to mean that he wasn’t just about to lay down and die of old age. That he was going to go out and try to take some people with him.”