Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting

Overland Park Jewish Community Center Shooting
Location of Overland Park within the state of Kansas.
Location	Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Date	April 13, 2014 (2014-04-13) c. 1:00 p.m. – c. 2:45 p.m. (CDT)
Attack type	Spree shooting, hate crime
Weapons	Remington Model 870 shotgun Handgun
Deaths	3
Perpetrator	Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
Motive	Extremist White supremacist beliefs

On April 13, 2014, a pair of shootings committed by a White American domestic terrorist occurred at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two who were shot at the community center and one who was shot at the retirement community.

The gunman, 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. of Aurora, Missouri, originally from North Carolina, was arrested in the attack and was subsequently tried, convicted of murder and other crimes, and sentenced to death. He was a Neo-Nazi and former political candidate.

The shootings began at around 1:00 p.m. (CDT) at a rear parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, near the entrance to the White Theater. The gunman first fired a handgun at two men. One of the men managed to escape immediately, while the second man tried to flee in his car. A bullet struck the shoulder bag of the man's seat, but he escaped uninjured. The shooter then fired at two males, 69-year-old Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who were hit by gunfire as they pulled into the parking lot inside their car. Corporon died at the scene of a shotgun wound to the head, while Underwood died of handgun wounds at a hospital.

During the time of the first shooting, teenagers were inside the building auditioning for KC Superstar, a singing competition. In addition to that, actors, crew members, and other staff were in the White Theater preparing for a 2:00 p.m. performance of To Kill a Mockingbird. The gunman was able to fire several shots into the building. The staff inside the building were the first to make 9-1-1 calls alerting the police. After firing at several other people, but missing, the shooter fled in his car and opened fire at Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community located a little more than a mile away from the community center. A woman, Terry LaManno, was killed in the parking lot, and two other people were shot at, but the gunshots missed both people.