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Excellent source of stories of incidents that resemble terrorist attacks on religious targets
Sample of incidents May 2014
Southwest Missouri man under scrutiny in fatal shooting of three at Johnson County Jewish centers
Three people died Sunday when a gunman opened fire outside the Jewish Community Center and a senior living facility in Johnson County.
Police arrested the suspected shooter, a man in his 70s with a beard, outside Valley Park Elementary nearby by 2:45 p.m. He smiled and reportedly made anti-Semitic statements as he was led away. Police said the man, who was not from Kansas, used a shotgun in the slayings at the Jewish Community Center. He also had a handgun when he was arrested.
“We are investigating it as a hate crime,” said Overland Park Police Chief, but investigators are not sure of the motive.
Media reports identified the gunman as Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., 73, of Aurora, Mo., a small town in Lawrence County, southwest of Springfield.
Public records show that Cross also uses the name Frazier Glenn Miller.
A dispatcher with the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department said Sunday night that officers were working with Johnson County authorities and the FBI. Another source close to the investigation acknowledged that Miller was the person of interest.
A woman who answered the phone at a number listed for Frazier Glenn Miller said she did not know where he was, and then began to cry.
Miller has a long history of anti-Semitic and racist statements. In 2010, as a self-proclaimed write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri, Miller purchased or tried to purchase advertising time on several Missouri radio stations, including at least one in Kansas City. The ads bitterly denounced Jews, the federal government and African-Americans.
nvestigation into assault at church uncovers similar attack
The Tulsa police investigation into a female church employee attacked nearly a week ago has not yet turned up a suspect, Sex Crimes Division Sgt. Mark Mears said. But it did turn up a similar case that had occurred nearby in late March. Mears said the department has received only a few Crime Stoppers tips [...]
Several South Columbus churches vandalized
COLUMBUS, Ga. – Reverend Darrion McCoy arrived to church early Sunday morning and found that a large rock had been thrown through one of the windows at his church. “Why would they do this to the church?” asks Rev. McCoy. “I just don't understand why they would vandalize the church.” Twelve Disciples Baptist church was [...]
New details released in cyber attack that defrauded Adventist Church of half a million U.S. dollars
New details have been released in the ongoing investigation of a sophisticated cyber theft that defrauded the Seventh-day Adventist Church of approximately US$500,000 during the span of a four-week period late last year. Church leaders say a compromised password appears to have allowed online scammers to hack into the Gmail account of a church employee [...]
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