OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a well-known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt. 
 
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 A Kansas State Trooper stands near the location of a shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan., Sunday, April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) (Associated Press) 
 
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 Overland Park chief of police John Douglass talks to reporters after a shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan. and Village Shalom in Leawood, Kan., Sunday, April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Orlin... (Associated Press) 
 
 Kansas State Troopers stand outside a police line near the location of a shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan., Sunday, April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) (Associated Press) 
 
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 Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Mo., was booked into Johnson County jail on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder after the attacks Sunday in Overland Park. 
 
 At a news conference, Overland Park police Chief John Douglass declined to publicly identify the man suspected in the attacks. But an official at the Olathe jail, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the case, identified the suspect as 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Mo. 
 
 "Today is a sad and very tragic day," Douglass said at the news conference. "As you might imagine we are only three hours into this investigation. There's a lot of innuendo and a lot of assertions going around. There is really very little hardcore information." 
 
 According to police, the attacks happened within minutes of one another. At around 1 p.m. a gunman shot two people in the parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He then drove a few blocks away to a Jewish retirement community, Village Shalom, and gunned down a woman or girl there, Douglass said. Officers arrested him in an elementary school parking lot a short time later. 
 
 Police said the attacks at both sites happened outside, and that the gunman never entered any buildings. Douglass said the gunman also shot at two other people during the attacks, but missed. 
 
 Authorities declined to release the victims' names pending notification of their relatives, and the identity of the person shot at the retirement community was still unknown early Monday. However, the family of the first two victims put out a statement identifying them as Dr. William Lewis Corporon, who died at the scene, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who died at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. 
 
 They were both Christian, and the family thanked members of their church congregation, among other people, for their support. 
 
 "We take comfort knowing they are together in Heaven," the family said. It asked for privacy to mourn. 
 
 Rebecca Sturtevant, a hospital spokeswoman, said family members told her Corporon had taken his grandson to the community center so that the boy could try out for a singing competition for high school students. Reat was a freshman at Blue Valley High School and an Eagle Scout. 
 
 Douglass said the suspect made several statements to police, "but it's too early to tell you what he may or may not have said." He also said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether there was an anti-Semitic motive for the attacks or whether they will be investigated as hate crimes. The Jewish festival of Passover begins Monday. 
 
 "We are investigating it as a hate crime. We're investigating it as a criminal act. We haven't ruled out anything. ... Again, we're three hours into it," he said. 
 
 Although the suspect was booked under the last name Cross, he is probably better known as Frazier Glenn Miller. A public records search shows he has used both names, but he refers to himself on his website as Glenn Miller and went by the name Frazier Glenn Miller in 2006 and 2010 campaigns for public office. 
 
 The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said it reached Miller's wife, Marge, by phone and that she said authorities had been to their home and told her that her husband had been arrested in Sunday's attacks. Calls by The Associated Press to a number listed as Miller's on his website were met by a busy signal or rang unanswered. 
 
 According to the law center, Miller has been involved in the white supremacist movement for most of his life. He founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was its "grand dragon" in the 1980s. The Army veteran and retired truck driver later founded another white supremacist group, the White Patriot Party, the center said. 
 
 Miller was the subject of a nationwide manhunt in 1987 for violating the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp. The search ended after federal agents found Miller and three other men in an Ozark mobile home, which was filled with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Miller tried running for U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010, espousing a white power platform each time. 
 
 The attacks rattled Overland Park, a suburb of about 180,000 residents south of Kansas City. 
 
 President Barack Obama released a statement expressing his grief over the attack, and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback vowed to bring those responsible to justice. 
 
 "My heart and prayers are with all those who were affected by today's events," Brownback said in a statement. "We will pursue justice aggressively for these victims and criminal charges against the perpetrator or perpetrators to the full extent of the law." 
 
 Michael Siegal, chair of the Jewish Federations of North America, also said in an emailed statement that "no community should have to face a moment such as this one." 
 
 "Today, on the eve of Pesach, we are left to contemplate how we must continue our work building a world in which all people are free to live their lives without the threat of terror," he said. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Tim Jacobs in Chicago contributed to this report. ||||| A doctor and his 14-year-old grandson were killed in the parking lot at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and a woman was killed a short time later in a parking lot at Village Shalom, a senior living community about a mile away, the police said. 
 
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 Mr. Miller was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon at a local elementary school near Village Shalom, the police said. In video taken by KMBC, a local television station, the suspect yelled “Heil Hitler!” while sitting in a police car. 
 
 The Southern Poverty Law Center said it sued Mr. Miller in the 1980s for intimidating African-Americans, and he has had several run-ins with the law since then. He served six months in prison after he was held in criminal contempt for violating the terms of the court order that settled that lawsuit. He also served three years in federal prison for weapons charges and for plotting robberies and the assassination of the center’s founder, Morris Dees. As part of his plea bargain, he testified against other Klan leaders in a 1988 trial. 
 
 The police said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether the attacks were a hate crime. 
 
 Mr. Miller made several unsuccessful runs for public office, including a bid for the Senate in 2010. He kept a website where he espoused views of white supremacy and eschewed racial mixing. He was a fan of David Duke, a white nationalist and a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and Louis Farrakhan, the former leader of the Nation of Islam who blamed Jews for slavery in America. 
 
 In a 2010 interview with Howard Stern, the radio shock jock, who is Jewish, Mr. Miller was asked who he hated more, Jews or African-Americans. Mr. Miller answered “Jews. A thousand times more. Compared to our Jewish problem, all other problems are mere distractions.” 
 
 Prodded to explain, he said Jews controlled the federal government, mass media and the Federal Reserve Bank. “And with those powers, they’re committing genocide against the white race,” he said. 
 
 In the same interview, Mr. Miller said he had “a great deal of respect for Muslim people” and called Adolf Hitler “the greatest man who ever walked the earth.” 
 
 Heidi Beirich, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said she spoke with Mr. Miller’s wife, Marge, on Sunday and Ms. Miller said that the police told her that her husband had been arrested as the gunman. 
 
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 Ms. Miller, who has no apparent ties to the white supremacist community, according to Ms. Beirich, told her that she last saw her husband at about 3 p.m. on Saturday, when he left to go to a casino. He called her at about 10:30 on Sunday morning to say that his winnings were up, Ms. Beirich said, and that was the last Ms. Miller heard of him. At a news conference several hours after the shootings, the Overland Park police chief, John Douglass, said that the suspect was not a local resident and was not known to the Police Department before Sunday’s attacks. 
 
 “Today is a very sad and tragic day,” Chief Douglass said. “There are no words to express the senselessness of what happened this afternoon.” 
 
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 When asked at a news conference whether Mr. Miller had yelled “Heil Hitler!” as he was arrested, Chief Douglass said it was too early to discuss what the suspect did or did not say. 
 
 Two of the victims were identified on Sunday night as Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his grandson Reat Griffin Underwood. Reat was a freshman at Blue Valley High School and an Eagle Scout, according to a statement from their family. Dr. Corporon was a “well-loved physician in the Johnson County community,” and he and his wife had been married for almost 50 years. Both victims were members of the nearby United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. 
 
 President Obama released a statement on Sunday evening, saying he offered his thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims. 
 
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 “I have asked my team to stay in close touch with our federal, state and local partners and provide the necessary resources to support the ongoing investigation,” he said. “While we do not know all of the details surrounding today’s shooting, the initial reports are heartbreaking.” 
 
 The Anti-Defamation League called the attacks a “cowardly, unspeakable and heinous act of violence.” 
 
 “While it is too early to label these shootings as a hate crime, the fact that two Jewish institutions were targeted by the same individual just prior to the start of the Passover holiday is deeply troubling and certainly gives us pause,” Karen Aroesty, the group’s St. Louis regional director, said in a statement. 
 
 The attacks came during an unusually busy day at the Jewish Community Center, because first-round auditions were planned for the afternoon for a singing competition called KC SuperStar. When the shooting was reported around 1 p.m., more than 100 people fled into a hall inside the center, where they were held for about an hour and a half. 
 
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 A high school student, Sophia Porter, arrived at the center for her singing audition only five minutes after the shooting. Sophia, 17, said she saw police cars arriving before she was ushered into the lockdown area with dozens of adults and children. 
 
 “I was definitely shellshocked when I heard what had happened,” she said. “It was horrifying to think of the person who would be responsible for that.” 
 
 The Jewish Community Center is the main hub for about 20,000 Jewish people living in the Kansas City metropolitan area, said Herbert Mandl, a retired rabbi and a local police chaplain. 
 
 “It’s a very trying time for the community,” he said. “We’ll pull together. We’ll survive.” 
 
 The attacks started at a parking lot in the back of the sprawling community center near a theater, the police said. The suspect fired several shots and left. Several minutes later, an emergency call came from the retirement community reporting shots fired. 
 
 Images from local television stations showed a heavyset, bearded man wearing glasses being led away in handcuffs by police officers. 
 
 Mr. Mandl said he thought it was “suspicious” that both of the targets were places used mostly by the Jewish community, but said he understood that officials were being cautious in determining a motive. 
 
 Village Shalom representatives said Sunday evening that they had few details about what had happened. The retirement community was established in 1912 by a benevolent society of Orthodox Jews in Kansas City, according to their website. The campus has a cafe with kosher food, a dental clinic, a day spa and a library. 
 
 At the Jewish Community Center, the back doors had substantial damage from gunfire, the police said. The center released a statement on Sunday evening saying it would be closed on Monday. 
 
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 “Our hearts go out to the families who have suffered loss on this tragic day,” the statement read. “Our heartfelt gratitude as well to all those in Kansas City and around the world who have expressed sympathy, concern and support.” ||||| A 73-year-old southwest Missouri man with a long history of anti-Semitism is suspected of killing two people outside Overland Parks Jewish Community Center and then a third at a nearby Jewish assisted living facility. 
 
 After officers arrested Frazier Glenn Cross  an Aurora, Mo., man better known as F. Glenn Miller  Sunday afternoon, authorities said he went on a rant inside the patrol car. Though Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass wouldnt say what Cross hollered, a television crew captured him on video while he was handcuffed in the back of the car. 
 
 Heil Hitler, Miller yelled out, and then he bobbed his head up and down. 
 
 Four hours after the shooting rampage was first reported, Douglass said in a news conference that it was too early to know definitively what the shooters motives were, but added: We are investigating this as a hate crime. 
 
 In all, the gunman fired at five people Sunday afternoon, police said, but he missed two of his targets, who were not injured. Police said the man had not only a shotgun but also a handgun and possibly an assault weapon. 
 
 Two of the victims who died were shot in a car at the community center, 5801 W. 115th St., Douglass said. One of them was William Lewis Corporon, a Johnson County doctor. The other, Reat Griffin Underwood, was Corporons 14-year-old grandson, who died later at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. 
 
 The third victim, who was not publicly identified Sunday night was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Village Shalom senior living facility at 5500 W. 123rd St. 
 
 By Sunday evening, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had joined the investigation, as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and other agencies. A dispatcher with the Lawrence County Sheriffs Department in southwest Missouri where Miller lives said the agency was assisting the Johnson County Sheriffs Department and FBI in an investigation Sunday night. 
 
 Calling the Overland Park shootings heartbreaking, President Barack Obama pledged the full support of the federal government. He said he asked his team Sunday to make sure law enforcement has the necessary resources to support the ongoing investigation. 
 
 Authorities hauled off the suspects four-door white car, with Missouri license plates, before 4 p.m. Douglass would not say whether Miller was talking to investigators. 
 
 The shootings shook the Kansas City area, especially the local Jewish Community, which was preparing for Mondays Passover holiday. 
 
 Matt Davis, who lives near Valley Park Elementary where police arrested Miller, was shopping with his son for a suit for his upcoming bar mitzvah when he heard about the shooting. Davis was outside the school when Miller was hauled off. 
 
 The man was smiling. 
 
 I was wondering, Why is the guy smiling when hes being arrested,  said Davis, whose daughter was inside the Jewish Community Center when the shooting occurred in the parking lot. She and the hundreds of other people inside the center were not injured. 
 
 Dispatchers got the first call about shots fired at 1:03 p.m. and sent officers to the centers parking lot. 
 
 People inside had been alerted about the shooting outside. 
 
 Bailey Wainstock and Rachel Trout were among several young people who for close to two hours Sunday afternoon barricaded themselves inside a meeting room at the Jewish Community Center. 
 
 They told those attending Sunday nights interfaith prayer service at St. Thomas the Apostle church in Overland Park that they first learned of the shootings when the father of one group member called to say that there had been a shooting in the area. 
 
 Then he called back and said it happened right outside, and all of us reacted, Trout said. We started taking tables and pushing them against the doors, barricading ourselves in. 
 
 The meeting was for members of a BnaiBrith International group. Soon, Trout said, members started receiving texts from members from across the country, offering them prayers and support. 
 
 There were so many people who wanted to know if we were OK, Trout said. 
 
 The two said they hoped to plan a commemorative walk this coming Friday, starting at the Jewish Community Center campus, going to Village Shalom and ending at the elementary school where the alleged shooter was apprehended.The gunfire at the west side of the Jewish Community Center came as hundreds of high school singers from across the metro area were expected to audition for the KC SuperStar contest and actors were rehearsing for a production of To Kill a Mockingbird. 
 
 There were tons of kids because this was about to start at 1 oclock, said Ruth Bigus, the publicist for KC SuperStar. 
 
 Others were at the center to use the workout facilities. 
 
 One of the employees at the center came in and said, Were on lockdown  said Steve Stras, who was in the locker room when the shooting occurred. He didnt give any more information than that. 
 
 Everyone outside the locker room was brought in and then the doors were locked. Roughly 25 people spent an hour inside the locker room and then moved to the lobby for a while. 
 
 I probably missed the shooter by maybe 10 minutes, Stras said. ...It scared the hell out of my wife when she found that out. 
 
 When officers arrived in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center, they found Corporon dead and Underwood critically injured. 
 
 The teen and his grandfather both attended the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, said church spokeswoman Cathy Bien. 
 
 The Rev. Adam Hamilton, the churchs senior pastor, shared the news with church members at the beginning of the evening Palm Sunday service. He said he had been talking to the victims family in the hours after the shooting, and they asked him to go through with the Sunday evening service. 
 
 The lights dimmed as Hamilton asked worshipers to pray for the family. 
 
 Help us, o Lord, to grieve as people of hope, Hamilton said. 
 
 U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, who is a member of the Church of the Resurrection, spoke in the hall toward the end of the service: Its a very tough moment for our community, a tough moment for our church. Its a reminder that evil can strike at any time and today it struck here in Overland Park. 
 
 Several minutes after the Jewish Community Center shooting, Overland Park police received a call about shots fired at Village Shalom. When officers arrived, the victim, initially identified only as a white female, was already dead. 
 
 Amy Rasmussen of Lees Summit was at Village Shalom visiting her grandmother when a staff member alerted people inside. 
 
 People were told by one of the staff that it was a tornado warning ... and stay away from the windows, said Rasmussen. Later everyone realized there was a shooting outside. 
 
 Other Jewish-related facilities have been the targets of violence in recent years. 
 
 In 2009, a white supremacist shot and fatally wounded a security guard at the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in an attack that sent tourists running for cover. The shooter, 88-year-old James W. von Brunn, was wounded in the head during the assault and died the following year. Prosecutors said he had been planning the assault  which they described as a suicide mission  for months and wanted to send a message to the Jewish community that the Holocaust was a hoax. 
 
 In 1999, avowed white supremacist Buford Furrow Jr., who had been recently released from prison, rushed into a day care at a Jewish community center on the northern edge of Los Angeles. He shot and wounded five people, including three children. Later in the day, Furrow shot and killed a postman. Authorities said Furrow described his attacks as a wake-up call to kill Jews and non-whites. 
 
 The Jewish Community Center will be closed Monday. 
 
 Our hearts go out to the families who have suffered loss on this tragic day, the center said in a statement. Our heartfelt gratitude as well to all those in Kansas City and around the world who have expressed sympathy, concern and support. 
 
 Davis, who saw police take the suspect into custody, said Sundays events were horrifying. 
 
 This is a huge Jewish community over here, Davis said. ...Were pretty sheltered. For something like that to happen is pretty shocking. 
 
 Its just hard for me to comprehend a hate crime.
– The suspect accused of shooting three people dead at two Kansas City-area Jewish sites has been identified as a former "grand dragon" of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, says 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross has a long history of racist and anti-Semitic behavior, NBC reports. He is suspected of shooting dead a 14-year-boy and his grandfather in the parking lot of a Jewish community center before killing a woman at a nearby retirement home. More: Police say Cross, who has been booked on suspicion of first-degree murder, smiled and made an anti-Semitic statement when he was arrested near the community center, reports the Kansas City Star. They declined to confirm reports that he shouted "Heil Hitler." Cross—who also uses the name Frazier Glenn Miller—tried to buy radio ads denouncing Jews and the federal government during a 2010 write-in campaign for the US Senate from Missouri. "We've sat back and allowed the Jews to take over our government, our banks, and our media," one ad said. In a 2010 interview with Howard Stern, Cross accused Jews of "committing genocide against the white race" and said Adolf Hitler was "the greatest man who ever walked the Earth," the New York Times finds. Asked who he hated more, Jewish people or African Americans, Cross responded, "Jews. A thousand times more. Compared to our Jewish problem, all other problems are mere distractions." The Anti-Defamation League described the shootings as a "cowardly, unspeakable and heinous act of violence." While it is too early to call the shootings a hate crime, "the fact that two Jewish institutions were targeted by the same individual just prior to the start of the Passover holiday is deeply troubling and certainly gives us pause," the group's regional director said in a statement. The two victims shot at the community center have been identified as Dr. William Lewis Corporon, who died at the scene, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who died at the hospital, the AP reports. They were both members of a nearby Methodist church and were at the community center for the grandson to try out for a local singing competition.