Man behind deadly 2014 attack at Kansas Jewish centers dies in prison
Man behind deadly 2014 attack at Kansas Jewish centers dies in prison
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. said repeatedly in his trial and interviews with the press that he went to those locations seeking to kill Jews
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. Source: Screenshot.
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(May 6, 2021 / JNS) White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., who was responsible for killing three people at a Jewish community center and assisted-living/Jewish retirement facility in Kansas City, Kan., in 2014, died in prison on Monday.
Miller was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2015 for his attacks on the two Jewish sites in Overland Park. His execution by lethal injection was pending active legal appeals,
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.