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A GUNMAN WITH anti-Semitic ties allegedly shot three people dead Sunday at a Jewish community center and a retirement community in Kansas in the United States drawing widespread condemnation and consternation on the eve of Passover.
Frazier Glenn Cross, who is now in custody, was not local and did not know the victims, Overland Park Police Department Chief John Douglass told reporters.
Cross, an alias for the suspect who also goes by Frazier Glenn Miller, has long-held white supremacy ties as a former leader within the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a history of anti-Semitism, said the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks hate groups.
The suspect was heard yelling “Heil Hitler” as police officers escorted him away at an elementary school, local NBC television affiliate KSHB reported.
Police refused to confirm the report.
Neo-Nazi
A member of a neo-Nazi forum called the Vanguard News Network, Cross, who hails from Aurora, Missouri, had posted more than 12,000 messages since joining, the SPLC said.
Cross allegedly used a shotgun in the assault and investigators, who are being assisted by the FBI, are trying to determine whether a handgun and assault rifle were involved.
President Barack Obama condemned the “horrific” shooting, and pledged the federal government’s “full support” in the investigation and to the community.
“The initial reports are heartbreaking,” he said in a statement offering his condolences to the families of the victims.
The first shooting at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City took place around 6pm yesterday as youths auditioned for a play.
Rabbi Herbert Mandl, who serves as chaplain for the Overland Park Police Department, told CNN that the suspect asked people whether they were Jewish before opening fire.
He killed two people there, William Lewis Corporon, who died on the spot, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who succumbed to injuries at a hospital, The Kansas City Star reported.
He then got in his car and headed to the Village Shalom assisted living center, where he allegedly killed a woman in her 70s about 15 minutes after the first shooting.
Shot at two others
In addition to the three people killed, the suspect shot at two other people but missed them.
“Today is a very sad and tragic day and certainly, there are no words to express the senselessness of what’s happened this afternoon,” Douglass said.
At the Jewish community center, the shooting took place in a parking lot just outside a theater where local media said 75 people, most of them children, were inside.
They had been auditioning for “KC Superstar,” a local singing competition based on “American Idol.”
The Jewish center said all programs were canceled and it would be closed for the rest of the day Sunday and Monday.
Lockdown
It was earlier placed on temporary lockdown but program participants were later released.
“Our hearts go out to the families who have suffered loss on this tragic day,” the center said on its website.
The Jewish holiday of Passover begins Monday.
According to the FBI, nearly two thirds of anti-religious hate crimes in the United States target Jews or Jewish sites.
A total of 674 incidents took place in 2012 alone, bureau data showed.
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Why are these bald headed, doc Martin wearing unemployable tattooed knuckle draggers allowed to function.
Could the FBI just brand them a terrorist orginasation and gitmo the fcukers. These neo nazi terrorist gangs have been jailed for killing more people than “suspected Muslim extremists “
What a horrible thing to happen.
Horrendous, how can people like this still be around?
Such a terrible crime yet Obama cannot condemn the actions of neo-nazis at home and then support them in Ukraine. It’s called hyprocisy.
So how can Ukraine be supported without being accused of neo nazi collusion. Or are all Ukrainian neo nazi and should be governed from Moscow . Which is a bastion of libertarian democracy.
Just another day in the heartland of America
Actually it’s not.
These events are tragic & happen all too frequently, but they’re not “just another day”. That implies that the public are not shocked by them. & just accept them. They don’t. They’re horrified, just as they should be.
Atrocities like this happen all the time all over the world. America is reported on more in this part of the world because we have ties to it .
More bull…it’s one of most murderous countries in the world.
If you are denying the epidemic levels of gun violence in America, then you are just another fool like all the others. I like to call you the “sunshine and puppies brigade”
Call it what you like, but the facts remain. All over the world, any given day, somebody (either through brainwashing, mental breakdown or agenda) loses it & goes on a killing rampage.
It’s happened in the UK, US, Middle East, China, pretty much everywhere.
Access to weapons makes it easier, a lack of mental evaluation in the processing of licences makes it easier, but if someone wants to go on a rampage they will, armed with whatever they can get their hands on – explosives, guns, knives etc.
Every country has nut jobs, but not every country has such access to arms. And therein lies the problem.. End of.
Guns and explosive are fairly difficult to legally get your hands on in Ireland. Yet the IRA and other groups have managed to do plenty of damage on this island. Guns are not the problem. If you have the mentality and desire to kill people. You will do it and nothing will stop you. Can’t get a gun legally? Buy one illegally. Can’t buy explosives legally? Buy enough fertiliser and the problem is solved.
I don’t care what anyones opinion on firearms is but it is a typical thick paddy reaction though to blame the easily solved part of the problem, rather than dealing with the difficult and complicated issue of mental health and education.
But not as murderous as your beloved Venezuela, Nicole.
These are of the same gene pool as those supported by the west and now on power in Ukraine
Who wears jeans in a pool, come on.
I know a guy called Gene from Liverpool
Reading through his very long, ridiculous manifesto he comes from the nutty NWO, Israel controls America, Jews run the world media and the banks, whites are losing their lands brigade. He’d be very much at home on infowars and RT forums.
He must know Frank then.
Anti-semitic ties.. He probably called for Alan Shatters resignation on theJournal
I think its very sad that this has happend and i hope the people killed rest in peace , incidents like these show the need for stricter gun control in America so that nutjobs like these don’t hurt anybody else.
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