Frazier Glenn Cross, white supremacist who killed 3 in 2014 attacks on Overland Park Jewish sites, dies in prison Frazier Glenn Cross, a self-avowed white supremacist and anti-Semite, was convicted of killing three people in 2014 during attacks at two Jewish sites in Overland Park. Kansas corrections officials say Cross died on Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility of natural causes. Photo courtesy the Johnson County District Attorney (via KCUR 89.3.)
Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., the man who killed three people in two shootings at Jewish sites in Overland Park in 2014, died Monday in a Kansas prison, according to state corrections officials.
In a release Tuesday from the El Dorado Correctional Facility, authorities say a preliminary assessment shows Cross died from natural causes. Results of an official autopsy are pending, the release said.
Kansas man on death row for Jewish center slayings dies at 80
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May 4 (UPI) A Kansas death row inmate sentenced to death for killing three people outside a Jewish community center in 2014 has died, state officials announced Tuesday.
Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., 80, died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional facility just east of Wichita, the Kansas Department of Corrections said. His cause of death wasn t released.
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He was sentenced in 2015 for shooting and killing Terri LaManno, 53; William Corporon, 69; and Corporon s grandson, Reat Underwood, 14.
The three were gunned down at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and the Village Shalom Retirement Community in Overland Park a day before the Jewish holiday of Passover. Cross was also convicted on three counts of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault for pointing a shotgun at a woman.
Margaret Stafford May 04, 2021 - 1:14 PM
An avowed 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.
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 Millerâs death or medical condition.
Frazier Glenn Cross responsible for killing 3 people at Jewish Community Center dies in prison
Cross, a self-avowed anti-Semite, was on death row Share Updated: 9:41 PM CDT May 4, 2021 KMBC 9 News Staff
Cross, a self-avowed anti-Semite, was on death row Share Updated: 9:41 PM CDT May 4, 2021
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Show Transcript I’M ROB HUGHES. WE’RE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS THIS HOUR. THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS HATE CRIMES IN KANSAS CITY HISTORY HAS DIED. THE EL DORADO, KANSAS, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SAYS SELF-PROFESSED WHITE SUPREMACIST FREZIER GLENN CROSS DIED IN PRISON YESTERDAY. CROSS WAS ON DEATH ROW AWAITING EXECUTION FOR THE MURDERS OF THREE PEOPLE AT TWO JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS, JEWISH SITES IN 2014. WILLIAM CORPORON, HIS GRANDSON AND TERRI LAMANNO DIED IN THE , ATTACK. CROSS SAID HE WAS CHOSE THE SITES BECAUSE HE WANTED TO SHOOT PEOPLE WHO WERE JEWISH. HOWEVER, ALL OF HIS VICTIMS WERE CHRISTIAN. MINDY