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June 12, 2009 | 1:18 pm

Help Honor Stephen Tyrone Johns

Posted by Rob Eshman

We need to honor Stephen Tyrone Johns, 39,  the security guard who was gunned down June 10 by a white supremacist at the entrance to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

“A soft-spoken, gentle giant,”  Milton Talley, a former employee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, told the Washington Post.

More from the Post:

Johns, a 1988 graduate of Crosslands High School in Temple Hills, lived in an apartment in the Temple Hills area. Friends said he had a son.

Allen Burcky, another former museum employee, said last night that workers there considered each other “like family” and that Johns was “very courteous, very helpful.”
Lourdes Padilla, the mother of a close friend, said that Johns trained as a plumber but that she didn’t think he had ever entered the trade. He remarried about a year ago, Padilla said.
Johns’s sister, Jacqueline Carter, declined to comment as she entered her home in Temple Hills. “She’s in bad shape right now,” said a man who was driving her.

Yhe American Jewish Committee’s Washington, D.C. chapter has set up a memorial fund to benefit the family of Officer Johns. The organization said it will soon have a place on its Web site, www.ajc.org, where one can contribute.  Those who want to donate immediately should send checks made out to the American Jewish Committee, with “Holocaust Museum Memorial Fund” in the memo line, to:
American Jewish Committee, Washington Chapter
C/O Melanie Maron
1156 15th Street, NW, Suite 1201
Washington DC 20005
One hundred percent of the contribution will go to the Johns family.

The Holocaust Museum, at www.ushmm.org said it will also be taking donations at its site as well.


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I read that his security community had refused to provide bullet proof vests to the security guards even though they had been repeatedly requested. That would’ve saved the man’s life who is a hero, who sacrificed his life to save others in the museum. May he rest in peace.

Comment by Reality on 6/12/09 at 2:12 pm

My whole heart goes out to the family and the national community. An american hero indeed.  God bless

Comment by TJ on 6/12/09 at 4:51 pm

The death of Stephen Tyrone Johns is a tragedy that simply should not have happened. The brave young man left a widow and an 11- year-old son, who is grieving for his father,  a man he called, “my hero.”  I’m encouraged to learn that the AJC has set up a memorial fund for the family, and I will give generously, and inform friends and family about it. I respectfully urge others to do the same.

Comment by RS on 6/17/09 at 11:34 pm

i will honor him. good man

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