NAZIS ARE FREE BECAUSE GOVERNMENTS PROTECT CRIMINALS, NOT VICTIMS - KANSAS
Jewish center gunman suspect in Kansas Frazier Glenn Cross, 73 — also known as Frazier Glenn Miller — was a former 'grand dragon' of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He was arrested Sunday after allegedly killing three people near a Jewish center outside Kansas City. Prosecutors say they have enough evidence to charge him with federal crimes that could get him the death sentence.
Robin Nelson/ZUMAPRESS.comFrazier 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 OfficeFrazier 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.
"I know there are a lot of people interested in the weirdo, but he's obviously some crazy lunatic," he said. "Whatever's going to happen, is going to happen. We truly don't care. We're glad that if that's him, that he's obviously off the street and isn't going to hurt anybody else."
Grieving mother Mindy Corporon said her father had volunteered to take her son, Reat, an Eagle Scout, to the community center to try out for an "American Idol"-like singing contest.
The mother told mourners gathered at a vigil service Sunday night that she raced to the center from another son's lacrosse game as soon as she heard of the shooting.
Courtesy of Will CorporonReat Griffin Underwood (right) was planning to compete at a talent competition at the center before he was killed with his grandfather, Dr. William Lewis Corporon (left), on Sunday.
Courtesy of Will CorporonReat Griffin Underwood, 14, was an active member of the community, serving with the Boy Scouts of America and often volunteering
with his local church.
Dr. William Lewis Corporon, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood — who were Methodists — were two of three people killed by a white supremacist at a Jewish center outside Kansas City on Sunday.
Courtesy of Will CorporonReat Griffin Underwood, 14, had just arrived at the Jewish Community Campus of Greater Kansas City with his grandfather when the they were shot and killed by the gunman.
TAMMY LJUNGBLAD/MCT /LandovMindy Corporon (right), mother of 14-year-old Reat Underwood and daughter of Dr. William Lewis Corporon, who were both killed during a shooting at a Jewish center in Kansas.
"I was there before the police and I was there before the ambulance. And I knew immediately that they were in heaven, and I know that they're in heaven together."
She said she got to tell her son and her father that she loved them.
"I was the last Terri LaManno was visiting her mother at the Village Shalom assisted living facility in Overland Park when she was shot and killed on Sunday.
ATerri LaManno was a Kansas City mother of three.
Terri LaManno, a Kansas City mother of three, was visiting her mother at the Village Shalom assisted living facility in Overland Park when she was shot and killed on Sunday.
Cross was arrested shortly after the shootings at an elementary school near the Village Shalom senior living facility.
Witnesses said he spewed anti-Semitic slurs and repeatedly shouted "heil Hitler" as cops handcuffed him and put in the back of a police car.
Police said Cross fired at two others during the rampage, but missed.
Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesA police car is seen at the entrance of the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan., after three were killed when a gunman went on a shooting spree on Sunday.Orlin Wagner/APA Kansas state trooper controls traffic at the entrance of the Jewish Community Center after reports of a shooting in Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday. APAuthorities respond to the Jewish Community Center after a shooting in Overland Park, Kan.
TAMMY LJUNGBLAD/MCT /LandovPeople gathered to mourn the victims of the shooting at the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom during a vigil at St. Thomas The Apostle Episcopal Church in Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday night.
Cross is expected to make his first court appearance as early as Tuesday morning.
A nationwide manhunt for Cross was launched in 1987, when he violated the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary group.
KCTVFrazier Glenn Cross, also known as Frazier Glenn Miller, is hauled away after allegedly going on a shooting rampage that killed three people.
But authorities soon found him with three other men in a Missouri mobile home filled with a cache of automatic weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition and hand grenades.
Cross eventually pleaded guilty to possession of a hand grenade and received a five-year sentence in exchange for his testimony against other prominent white supremacists in a 1988 Arkansas case, the Anti-Defamation League said Monday.
"[His] decision earned him the enmity of the majority of the white supremacist movement, which now considered him a traitor to the movement," ADL officials said in a statement.
Cross was released from prison in 1990.
He wrote a disturbing autobiography titled "A White Man Speaks Out" in 1999 about his lifelong involvement with white supremacist groups. He even tried running for Congress in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010, but failed both times.
Sunday's attacks left the small Kansas City suburb shaken.
Friends of the teen victim, a freshman at Blue Valley High School, remembered him as a friendly spirit who often volunteered at the Church of Resurrection.
"He was just a kind spirit. So much talent every day that he showed us all and the smile he gave us every day and his devotion to others. And his church," family friend Samuel Cordes said during Sunday night's vigil.
"He touched the hearts of many," Cordes said.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback vowed to bring justice to those found responsible for the senseless killings.
"We will pursue justice aggressively for these victims and criminal charges against the perpetrator or perpetrators to the full extent of the law," Brownback said.
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