Supremacist appears in court on murder charges

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April 15, 2014 at 2:47 PM

U.S. Attorney Berry Grissom, right, and Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, left, listen to a question during a news conference in Overland Park, Kan., Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday against white supremacist, Frazier Glenn Cross, who is accused in a shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City on Sunday. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

In this photo provided by the Johnson County, Kan., Sheriff is Frazier Glenn Cross, a 73-year-old Vietnam War veteran from southwest Missouri, founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in his native North Carolina and later the White Patriot Party. Authorities said Tuesday, April 15, 2014 that Cross has been charged with one count of capital murder for the deaths of 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City on Sunday. He also faces one count of first-degree, premeditated murder for the death of a woman who was gunned down while visiting her mother at a nearby retirement complex. (AP Photo/Johnson County Sheriff)

FILE - In this April 13, 2014 file image taken from video provided by KCTV-5, Frazier Glenn Cross is escorted by police in an elementary school parking lot in Overland Park, Kan. Authorities said Tuesday, April 15, that Cross has been charged with one count of capital murder for the deaths of a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City on Sunday. Cross also faces one count of first-degree, premeditated murder for the death of a woman who was gunned down while visiting her mother at a nearby retirement complex. (AP Photo/KCTV-5, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, left, and U.S. Attorney Berry Grissom talk with the media during a news conference in Overland Park, Kan., Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday against white supremacist, Frazier Glenn Cross, who is accused in a shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City on Sunday. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe talks to the media as U.S. Attorney Berry Grissom, right, listens, during a news conference in Overland Park, Kan., Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday, April 15, against white supremacist, Frazier Glenn Cross, who is accused in a shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City on Sunday. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

U.S. Attorney Berry Grissom, right, and Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, center, depart as public information officer Gary Mason, left, ends a news conference in Overland Park, Kan., Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday against white supremacist, Frazier Glenn Cross, who is accused in a shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City on Sunday. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

U.S. Attorney Berry Grissom, right, and Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, left, listen to a question during a news conference in Overland Park, Kan., Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday against white supremacist, Frazier Glenn Cross, who is accused in a shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City on Sunday. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — An avowed white supremacist has made his first appearance in court on charges he killed three people in a shooting spree at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City.

Frazier Glenn Cross was wearing a dark, quilted, sleeveless vest and crossed his arms as he appeared by video feed Tuesday in Johnson County court. He spoke only when answering routine questions from the judge, and requested a court-appointed lawyer.

He's charged with murder in the shootings of a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan., and a woman at a nearby retirement complex.

Cross is being held on $10 million bond and his next court appearance is scheduled for April 24. Federal prosecutors are preparing a hate-crimes case that could result in charges later.

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