Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., convicted of capital murder, attempted murder and other charges, gestures as Johnson County deputies remove him from the courtroom during the sentencing phase of his trial at the Johnson County District Court in Olathe, Kan. November 10, 2015. (Joe Ledford/The Kansas City Star via AP, Pool, File)
An avowed US antisemite who testified that he wanted to kill Jews and was sentenced to death after he shot and killed three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City in 2014 has died in prison, the Kansas Department of Corrections said Tuesday.
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 80, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, where he was serving a sentence for capital murder, attempted murder, assault and firearms convictions.
Margaret Stafford, Associated Press
Updated at 11:51 a.m. Tuesday
A man who testified that he wanted to kill Jews and was sentenced to death after he shot and killed three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City in 2014 has died in prison, the Kansas Department of Corrections said Tuesday.
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 80, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, where he was serving a sentence for capital murder, attempted murder, assault and firearms convictions.
An autopsy will be performed to determine a cause of death, but preliminary indications were that Miller died of natural causes, Carol Pitts, a spokeswoman for the corrections department, said in a news release. She declined to comment further on Miller’s death or medical condition.
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, in court in 2014 after he killed three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City. Image: Pool
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., a lifelong, unrepentant white supremacist who shot and killed three people outside a Jewish community center and retirement home in suburban Kansas City in 2014, has died in prison.
Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, dedicated his life to white supremacy. He spent decades writing and spreading racist and antisemitic messages and threatening and inflicting violence against liberals, Blacks and Jews.
A lifetime of hate culminated in the attacks on the two Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kan., after which he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
Man convicted of Kansas Jewish community shootings dies in prison
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Kansas Department of Corrections
and last updated 2021-05-04 15:18:43-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Frazier Glenn Cross, 80, the man who was convicted of killing three people at Johnson County Jewish facilities, has died in the El Dorado Correctional Facility in south-central Kansas.
The Kansas Department of Corrections announced Cross died on Monday. An autopsy will determine cause of death, but they believe it to be from natural causes.
Cross, also known as Frazier Glenn Miller, was sentenced to death for the shootings at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park and the Village Shalom retirement center.