Supremacist ID'd as suspect in Kansas attacks

The man accused of killing three people in attacks at Jewish-related sites in Kansas today is a well-known white supremacist who has run for public office on a white power platform and was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt.
Frazier Glenn Cross was booked into Johnson County jail on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder.
At a news conference, Overland Park police Chief John Douglass declined to publicly identify the suspect. But a jail official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to discuss the case, identified the suspect as 73-year-old Cross.
"Today is a sad and very tragic day," Douglass said. According to police, the attacks happened within minutes of one another. A gunman opened fire on 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 the suspect in a school parking lot a short time later.
Authorities declined to release the victims' names pending notification of their relatives, but the family of the first two victims released 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 others, for their support. "We take comfort knowing they are together in Heaven," the family said.

Rebecca Sturtevant, a hospital spokeswoman, said family members said Corporon took his grandson to the community center so that the boy could try out for a singing competition.
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 if they will be investigated as hate crimes. The Jewish festival of Passover begins today.