New York - The World Jewish Concgress, United States (WJC-US) on Monday expressed shock and outrage at the heinous attack on the two Jewish community centers in Kansas City that took place on Sunday, 13 April 2014.
WJC-US remains in contact with members of the Kansas City Jewish community to keep updated on events and on the police investigation of this tragic incident.
As in the past, we remind Jewish institutions that security measures must be checked constantly, especially around holiday time, as a vital precaution. Instructions for this review can be found on line at the Secure Community Network, www.scnus.org.
Rabbi Joel Meyers, Chair, WJC US, said,” We extend our deepest condolences to the victims, families and entire Jewish community in Kansas City. We will remain in contact with authorities regarding this vicious attack as regards developments for further reports and stand in solidarity with the community.”
Suspect a 'raging anti-Semite' - reports
The man who killed the three people when he opened fire outside a Jewish community center and nearby retirement community in a Kansas City suburb is reportedly a 73-year-old Missouri man with a history of racist and anti-Semitic activity. A Kansas jail official told the 'Associated Press' that authorities had identified and arrested the suspect in the shooting in Overland Park as Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Frazier Glenn Miller.
Miller was a "raging anti-Semite" who had posted extensively in online forums that advocates exterminating Jews, the Southern Poverty Law Center (the SPLC) said, according to CNN. He has called Jews "swarthy, hairy, bow-legged, beady-eyed, parasitic midgets."
According to the SPLC, Miller founded and ran the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s. He was forced to shut down after the SPLC sued him for operating an illegal paramilitary organization and intimidating African-Americans. He then formed another group, the White Patriot Party.
In the late 1980s, Miller spent three years in prison on weapons charges and for plotting the assassination of SPLC founder Morris Dees. The short sentence was a result of a plea bargain he struck with federal prosecutors. In exchange, he testified against 14 white supremacists in a sedition trial in Arkansas in 1988.
"He was reviled in white supremacist circles as a 'race traitor and, for a while, kept a low profile," according to an SPLC profile of him. "Now he's making a comeback with The Aryan Alternative, a racist tabloid he's been printing since 2005."
