A 73-year old former Ku Klux Klan affiliate accused in the shooting deaths of three people in Kansas City on Sunday will face hate crime charges, law enforcement officials said Monday.
This was a hate crime, Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass told reporters at a news conference.
The suspect, Frazier Glenn Cross, a.k.a. Frazier Glenn Miller, is a known affiliate of various hate groups. He was a former grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The hate crime designation means that Cross could face both federal and state charges in connection to the killing of three people at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and at the Village Shalom Retirement Center, both in Overland Park, Kan., a Kansas City suburb.
The U.S. attorneys office will file hate crime charges against the defendant, said Barry Grissom, U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas. We will be presenting it to the grand jury in the not too distant future. more at link:
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