2014 Overland Park Shootings

2014 Overland Park shootings
Part of antisemitism in the United States
Location of Overland Park within the state of Kansas.
LocationOverland Park, Kansas, United States
DateApril 13, 2014 (2014-04-13)
c. 1:00 – c. 2:45 p.m. (CDT)
Attack type
Spree shooting, hate crime
Weapons
Deaths3
Injured0
PerpetratorFrazier Glenn Miller Jr.
MotiveAntisemitism
Extremist White supremacist beliefs

The Overland Park shootings were two shootings that occurred on April 13, 2014, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas United States. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two of whom were shot at the community center and one shot at the retirement community. The gunman, 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. of Aurora, Missouri, originally from North Carolina, was arrested during the attack and was subsequently tried, convicted of murder and other crimes, and sentenced to death. Miller, a former Klansman, neo-Nazi and former political candidate, died in prison in 2021 while awaiting execution.[5]

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