Former Ku Klux Klan leader accused of killing three Jews

The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community centre and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt.

Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, was booked into Johnson County jail on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder after the attacks in Overland Park on Sunday.

Overland Park police chief John Douglass declined to publicly identify the man suspected in the attacks. But an official at a suburban Kansas City jail, speaking on the condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as Cross.