A Life of Hate: Kansas Shooting Suspect Thrived on Extremism
April, 14, 2014
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/jewish-center-shootings/life-hate-kansas-shooting-suspect-thrived-extremism-n79891
The 73-year-old former Green Beret and Ku Klux Klan member accused of killing three people at two Jewish centers in Kansas has a long history of hate-fueled behavior and violent threats, including repeated tangles with authorities and civil rights groups.
In the name of white supremacy, Frazier Glenn Cross has organized armed militias, stockpiled military weapons and plotted to kill the founder of the Southern Law Poverty Center, which sued him in 1984 for trying to intimidate blacks in North Carolina.
Cross, a Vietnam veteran, served three years in federal prison for weapons-related offenses in the 1980s, according to the SPLC, which maintains a dossier on him.
But while Cross made a career of sinister activity, apparently he never -- until now -- was charged with personally carrying out any violent attacks.
Cross was arrested Sunday, on the eve of Passover, after allegedly shooting to death a 14-year-old Eagle Scoutand his 69-year-old grandfather at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City campus in Overland Park then gunning down a 53-year-old children's center worker at Village Shalom, a nearby retirement community.
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