BALTIMORE, Maryland April 13, 2014 - A 73-year-old man with a sordid history of anti-Semitic and Racist behavior is under arrest in Overland Park, Kansas, after killing two people at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, and a third person at a nearby Jewish assisted living facility. Identified by police as Frazier Glen Cross, but also known as Frazier Glen Miller, the suspected triple murderer was arrested by police not long after the second incident at an elementary school. The Southern Poverty Law Center said Cross founded and formerly lead the "Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" as well as the "White Patriot Party." The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors so-called hate groups. Prosecuters in Kansas have already said they are going to charge Cross with a hate crime because he targeted Jewish people. But all three of Cross' victims were not Jewish.
The victims of Cross were Reat Griffin Underwood, 14, the lad's grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, a medical doctor. They were both murdered in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas. The third victim is 53-year-old Terri LeManno, police said. LeManno, who is Catholic, was an occupational therapist and married mother of two children and was making a regular visit to her mother who lived at the retirement facility, police said. Reat Griffin Underwood was a high school freshman and a Christian who, along with his grandfather, came to the Jewish Community Center to audition for "Kansas City Superstars," a talent show. Mr. Corporon and his wife had moved to the area recently to be closer to their grandchildren. Both were found just outside their vehicle in the JCC's parking lot, as if they had just arrived for the competition. They both attended a local Methodist Church.
Cross had several guns in his possession when arrested. In Aurora, Missouri, where he lived in recent, area residents were very familiar with his overt racist tendencies. A reporter who visited his home saw a Confederate Flag in one room. Aurora residents freely called him a "nut." According to the Kansas City Star newspaper, Cross filed to run for Congress and wanted to buy television time but when station executives saw and heard the ads, they were filled with racist and anti-semitic slurs and other nonsense. All regulated television stations are bound by law to run election ads regardless of content. They made an exception for Cross' ads, and they did not make it to the airwaves. Cross' son, Jesse Miller, is serving a life term in prison for killing a police officer who stopped to help what he thought was a traffic accident victim on a roadside near Marionville, Missouri, where Cross lives.
Cross served time, according to the Jerusalem Post and other newspapers, for operating an illegal paramilitary organization and using intimidation tactics against blacks, as well as illegal weapons possession. The Jerusalem Post also reported that Cross served two tours of duty in Vietnam and was a member of the elite Green Berets. But in 1979 he was discharged from the army as a sgt. because he was caught distributing racist propaganda, according to Wikipedia.
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