HAYDEN, Idaho (AP) - An acquaintance says the suspect in the fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., arrived in North Idaho several years ago eager to meet others with an anti-government agenda.

Hayden, Idaho, resident Stan Hess tells The Spokesman-Review that James von Brunn seemed obsessed with violence, bitter over a stay in federal prison and fixated on guns.

According to a public records search, von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, lived in Hayden in 2004 and 2005.

Von Brunn stayed at Hess' home for a few days in late 2004 or early 2005 before Hess says he suggested the man move out. Hess said Wednesday that Von Brunn's frequent talk of violence and guns pushed the two to a shouting match.

For years, Hayden was home to the Aryan Nations, a racist group run by neo-Nazi Richard Butler.

Following a 1999 lawsuit, however, the now-dead Butler was forced to declare bankruptcy and his assets were liquidated.

Hess is a former leader of the California faction of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's European-American Unity and Rights Organization.

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