White supremacist charged with hate crimes in Kansas Jewish centre killings


  • World
  • Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) - The suspect in the Passover Eve killings of three people at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City is a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of hatred for Jews, law enforcement officials said on Monday.

Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, faces local and federal prosecution on hate crime charges after his arrest on Sunday for a shooting spree that killed a teenager and his grandfather outside a Jewish community centre, and a woman visiting her mother at a nearby Jewish retirement home.

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