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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. Trial: White Supremacist in Kansas Shootings From: AP OLATHE, Kan. — A white supremacist charged with killing three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City spent more than two hours Friday telling jurors how he planned the attacks and is sorry he didn't kill more people. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., who is acting as his own attorney, called himself to the witness stand and spoke of his military history and of how he started a group in North Carolina called the White Patriot Party. Miller also told jurors the prosecutor had a "slam dunk" and he knew they would put him on death row. If convicted, Miller could be sentenced to death. All the three exhibits Miller tried to introduce — a video of him in military uniform leading the White Patriot Party and two news articles — Friday morning were disallowed. Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan told him any similar materials likely would be as well. After a nearly three-hour lunch break, Miller returned to the stand and told jurors he wanted to tell them more about why he wanted to kill Jews, but the court wouldn't let him. Instead, he talked about an emphysema attack he had 10 days before the April 13, 2014, killings and his desire to "take out" Jewish people before he died. He said he didn't initially know if he would have the courage to carry out the attacks, but afterward felt an exhilaration that dwarfed even the feeling of jumping out of airplanes when he was in the Army. "I've been proud of myself for 15 months," he said. Former KKK leader charged in Jewish center shootings 2:48 The 74-year-old Aurora, Missouri, man is charged with killing William Corporon, 69, and Corporon's 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, and Terri LaManno, 53, at the nearby Village Shalom retirement center. Related: Kansas Jewish Center Shootings Reveal New Dangers of 'Lone Wolves' He said his only regret was that he killed the , who he thought was older. But under cross-examination, Miller admitted that he would have been fine with killing Reat if he had been Jewish. He said he was justified killing the other two because they were Jewish sympathizers, adding that he thought the prosecutor and judge also associated with Jews. "If I had known you and you were there, I would have probably shot you, too," he told District Attorney Steve Howe moments before finishing his time on the witness stand. |
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