US and local authorities in Kansas say they will pursue hate crime charges against the avowed anti-Semite and former Ku Klux Klan leader who allegedly shot and killed three people outside a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement home. 

73-year old Frazier Glenn Cross was seen screaming “heil Hitler” from the back of the police car after he was arrested. Although authorities believe that Cross had deliberately targeted Jews and even went out of his way to ask victims if they were Jewish before he shot them – the dead people are two Methodists and one Roman Catholic.

69-year old William L. Corporon was a longtime and respected family doctor.  Family members say he was taking his 14-year old grandson Reat Underwood to audition for a singing contest being held at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas on Sunday afternoon, where police say they were shot dead by Cross.

The suspect then drove a couple of minutes to the Village Shalom assisted living facility where police say he killed 53-year old Terri LaManno, an occupational therapist for children with visual impairments and community volunteer.

The victims seem to embody the good of America’s heartland.  Cross, on the other hand, reflects the stinking fungus cowering beneath the rocks, and has a long history of hatred and violence. 

The former Army Green Beret served two tours in America’s Vietnam War, and came to the attention of law enforcement after he founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s.  His version of the racist group wore military fatigues instead of white robes and hoods, and underwent military-style training.  Authorities eventually arrested him for his paramilitary activities, but he got a comparatively easy three-year prison term in the late ‘80s after he agreed to testify against white supremacists planning violence in America.

After getting out of prison, Cross was a frequent contributor to racist websites and was even interviewed occasionally in the media, whenever it was time to do stories about morons.  It made it easier for anti-racist groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to keep track of him.

“This is a guy who has held hate, and anti-Semitism, and racism in the essence of who he is for well over 40 years, and it’s played itself out in the publications, speeches, or actions, this was a guy who was filled with hate and rage,” said Lonny Nasatir, regional director of the Jewish advocacy group the Anti Defamation League.

Frazier Glenn Cross faces the death penalty if convicted.