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April 15, 2014

Ex-Klan Member Charged with Hate Crimes in Kansas Jewish Center Shootings 
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Prosecutors say the suspect in this weekend's deadly shootings at two
Jewish centers in Kansas will face hate crimes charges. Frazier Glenn
Miller is a known white supremacist with ties to neo-Nazi groups and the
Ku Klux Klan. He has previously served time in prison on weapons charges
and plotting to assassinate the founder of the Southern Poverty Law
Center, which monitors extremist groups. Miller is accused of shooting
three people dead at a Jewish community center and retirement home. On
Monday, family members remembered 14-year-old Reat Underwood and his
grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who died in the attack.

Mindy Corporon: "He was with us for a wonderful 14 years. He had a
really full life for a 14-year-old, and we were very blessed. And I've
heard from his friends, and I've talked to his best friend, and they
love him, too."

Will Corporon: "Everybody wants to know how we're doing. And to varying
degrees, we're muddling through. You know, no one thinks they're going
to have funerals to plan, and no one believes this will happen to you,
to your family."

At the White House on Monday, President Obama also paid tribute to the
victims and spoke out against hate crimes.

President Obama: "As a government, we're going to provide whatever
assistance is needed to support the investigation. As Americans, we not
only need to open our hearts to the families of the victims, we've got
to stand united against this kind of terrible violence, which has no
place in our society. And we have to keep coming together, across
faiths, to combat the ignorance and intolerance, including
anti-Semitism, that can lead to hatred and to violence."

 

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