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Trial opens for white supremacist charged in Kansas killings
Source: Reuters
US | Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:30am EDT
Trial opens for white supremacist charged in Kansas killings
OLATHE, KAN. | BY KEVIN MURPHY
Jury selection begins on Monday in the trial of a Missouri white supremacist charged with murdering three people in a shooting spree outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb in April 2014.
Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan who has made derogatory remarks about Jews in preliminary court hearings, chose to represent himself at his state trial in Olathe, Kansas.
Cross, also known as Glenn Miller, could be sentenced to death if convicted. About 200 people are on the witness list for the trial and its penalty phase. Jury selection is expected to take all week, court officials said.
Cross is charged with killing Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather, William Corporon, 69, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, as well as Terri LaManno, 53, outside a retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas. He is also charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at three other people outside the facilities. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Trial opens for white supremacist charged in Kansas killings
OLATHE, KAN. | BY KEVIN MURPHY
Jury selection begins on Monday in the trial of a Missouri white supremacist charged with murdering three people in a shooting spree outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb in April 2014.
Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan who has made derogatory remarks about Jews in preliminary court hearings, chose to represent himself at his state trial in Olathe, Kansas.
Cross, also known as Glenn Miller, could be sentenced to death if convicted. About 200 people are on the witness list for the trial and its penalty phase. Jury selection is expected to take all week, court officials said.
Cross is charged with killing Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather, William Corporon, 69, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, as well as Terri LaManno, 53, outside a retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas. He is also charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at three other people outside the facilities. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/17/us-usa-kansas-murders-idUSKCN0QM12J20150817
