FORT WASHINGTON, Md. — Family, friends and colleagues on Friday remembered a guard who was gunned down at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week as the victim of a barbaric act that contrasted starkly with his love for life.
Police and security guards, dozens of museum employees and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar were among hundreds of people who attended a funeral for Stephen T. Johns, 39. They remembered Johns as a "gentle giant,” a sometimes shy man who was a great listener, loved to travel and had a passionate zeal for life.
"Stephen was not only a big guy in a uniform,” the Rev. John McCoy said. "He was a man with a big heart.”
Authorities say Johns opened the museum door for James von Brunn, who shot him June 10.
by the associated press
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