BILL DRAPER, Associated Press
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor will seek the death penalty for a white supremacist from Missouri who is charged with killing three people at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City.
Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe announced his intention Thursday at a hearing where 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller of Aurora, Missouri, was ruled competent to stand trial.
Miller is charged in the April 13 shooting deaths of 69-year-old Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood and 53-year-old Terri LaManno.
After a judge on Thursday scheduled a three-day preliminary hearing in March, Miller protested the hearing date, shouting “What about my speedy trial?”
A Kansas judge last month ordered Cross to undergo a mental evaluation when his attorneys expressed concern about his ability to help with his defense.
————
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A white supremacist who admits killing three people outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites is set to appear in court for a hearing on whether he’s mentally competent to stand trial.
Seventy-three-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Missouri, is charged with capital murder in the April 13 shooting deaths of 69-year-old Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood and 53-year-old Terri LaManno.
A Kansas judge last month ordered Cross to undergo a mental evaluation after his attorneys expressed concerns about his ability to help with his defense.
Cross told The Associated Press last week that one of his attorneys said he passed the evaluation “with flying colors.” Results of the evaluation were to be revealed at a hearing Thursday morning at the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe, Kansas.