A man with a history of spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric is suspected of shooting to death a boy and his grandfather outside a Jewish community center near Kansas City, Kansas, and then a woman at a nearby Jewish assisted living facility. Police say Frazier Glenn Cross is the suspect in the shootings. And investigators had "unquestionably determined" that his actions were a hate crime, said Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass. Cross is the founder and former leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. Both organizations operated as paramilitary groups in the 1980s, according to the SPLC.
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Police chief says that investigators have determined shootings a hate crime
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Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, is accused of shooting at five people, killing three
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High school freshman and his grandfather were killed, as was a woman visiting her mother
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The suspect founded two white supremacist groups, Southern Poverty Law Center says
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