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Former Ku Klux Klan member Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., 73, also
known as Glenn Miller, is charged with capital murder in the
shooting deaths of Reat Underwood, 14, Underwood's grandfather,
William Corporon, 69, and Terri LaManno, 53, in the Kansas City
suburb of Overland Park, Kansas. He could be sentenced to death
if convicted.
Prosecutors accuse Cross of shooting Underwood and Corporon to
death at the Jewish Community Center on April 13, a Sunday
afternoon, and then driving to a nearby Jewish retirement home
where he killed LaManno.
A judge has ordered Cross to appear in person at the hearing in
Johnson County District Court and has set aside up to three days
for testimony and other evidence to be presented.
Cross, who is from the rural community of Aurora in southwest
Missouri, is a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan group
and a convicted felon known as Glenn Miller to law enforcement
and human rights groups.
Before the shootings, Cross had posted on the Internet that he
had an "obsessive hatred for Jews," although none of the people
he is accused of killing were Jewish.
Cross is also accused of firing on other people at the
facilities on April 13. He is represented by public defenders
and is being held on a $10 million bond.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City; Editing by Sandra
Maler)
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