Robin Nelson/ZUMAPRESS.com Frazier Glenn Miller pictured during his time as leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1985. An aging Ku Klux Klansman was facing federal hate crime charges Monday, accused of killing three people, including a doctor and his grandson, during a Passover eve rampage at Jewish facilities in Kansas.
Prosecutors are confident they have enough evidence to charge Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, with federal crimes that could get him the death penalty.
"We will be filing hate crime charges," said Barry Grissom, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas. "We are in a very good place from an evidence standpoint, and we will be presenting to a grand jury."
Cross of Aurora, Mo., who also goes by the name Frazier Glenn Miller, opened fire with a shotgun Sunday at the crowded Jewish community center in Overland Park and a nearby Jewish elderly home.
Johnson County Sheriff's Office Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, who was charged for a deadly shooting at Jewish facilities near Kansas City, has a long history of anti-Semitism as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, according to a group that monitors hate crimes. Witnesses said the gunman, screaming "heil Hitler," killed Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, ambushing them in the parking lot of Jewish Community Campus of Greater Kansas City.
Cross, former "grand dragon" of the Carolina Knights of Ku Klux Klan, then stormed to the nearby Village Shalom senior living facility, where he gunned down Terri LaManno, 53, who was visiting her elderly mother, authorities said.
While detectives suspect Cross was out to target Jewish victims, Corporon and his grandson were Methodist, relatives said.
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Frazier Glenn Miller speaks on television during his tenure as leader of the White Patriot Party.
Miller wrote a disturbing autobiography, 'A White Man Speaks Out,' in 1999.
Frazier Glenn Miller, at left speaking on television, wrote a disturbing autobiography, 'A White Man Speaks Out,' in 1999.
Corporon's son, Will, 48, told The News on Monday that his family was overwhelmed with the burden of planning funerals for his slain nephew and the family patriarch.
"It's unlike anything I can imagine," he said over the phone. "These things happen and, wow, it's just random and awful and senseless, you know, that some crazy old nut from the sticks can have some impact on people whose lives he's never even met."
He added that the family isn't spending any energy worrying about the fate of the alleged killer.
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