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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The suspect in Wednesday's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist from Maryland, two law enforcement officials told CNN.
Police cars mass outside the Holocaust Museum in Washington after a shooting there on Wednesday.
Gunfire at the entrance of the museum wounded at least two people Wednesday, emergency officials said.
A private security guard and the shooting suspect were wounded, according to officials of the D.C. police.
Sgt. David Schlosser, a spokesman for U.S. Park Police, told reporters a man armed with a "long gun" entered the museum at 12:50 p.m. and fired at a security officer, and both were wounded in the exchange of gunfire.
"My understanding is that two other security officers at the museum returned gunfire at the man that had entered the museum," Schlosser said. Video Watch Schlosser tell what's known so far »
Schlosser said he didn't know exactly what kind of firearm the man had and whether the shooting was before or after he passed through a metal detector.
He said the security guard that was initially shot and the gunman have been transported to George Washington University Hospital and he didn't know their conditions.
Emergency vehicles converged on the scene near the National Mall.
A witness, who identified herself as Maria without providing a last name, told CNN she heard five shots and saw a security guard lying wounded on the ground.
"It was definitely a security guard, he was down bleeding on the floor," she said. "He was face down. His back ... blood was coming out."
Dave Pearson, a 6th grade teacher in the Washington area, said he was on the museum's fourth floor when he heard a loud noise.
"At the time, we're visiting and all of a sudden there's like a boom, and all of a sudden they told us to stop where we're at," he told CNN's Ed Henry.
"Only thing we heard was a boom, and that was it."
A woman who did not give her name said that she understood the shooting happened inside the museum near the security checkpoint at the entrance.
She said she was quickly evacuated.
"We did see yellow tape down the hall when we were being rushed out," she said. "They came in and said we had to leave right away and they got us out."
Shooting at Holocaust Museum injures guard, suspect - CNN.com
88!
Glad they were able to bring him down in time before he seriously hurt anyone else. I've read elsewhere that he took a shot to the head so he's likely not going to survive.