OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A white supremacist charged with killing three people at two Jewish sites has given his opening statement after earlier being halted so the judge could clarify what the man was allowed to say.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. is representing himself in the capital murder trial stemming from the April 2014 killings near Kansas City. He attempted Monday to lay out a defense contending that Jewish people are committing genocide against the white race. All three victims were Christian.

Assistant Johnson County prosecutor Chris McMullin objected before Miller could complete his first sentence, in which he started to say that he tried to make a plea deal before the trial. Jurors were removed from the courtroom for a time.

The 74-year-old Miller later completed his abbreviated opening statement.