Morning Security Brief: Kansas City Shooting, Nigerian Blasts, Malaysian Air Search, and Ohio Security App Apr 14, 2014

By Mark Tarallo

04/14/2014 -

► A man in his 70s opened fire Sunday outside of a Jewish community center and nearby retirement community, killing three people. The suspect, Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Missouri, was booked into Johnson County jail on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder, according to anAssociated Press report. Cross is a white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt, AP reported. According to police reports, shots were fired behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in a parking lot about 1 p.m. One male died at the scene, another male died at a hospital. The gunman then fled and opened fire at nearby Village Shalom, killing a female, before later being arrested near an elementary school. Two other people were shot at, but the gunfire missed them. The family of the first two victims put out a statement identifying them as Dr. William Lewis Corporon, who died at the scene, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who died at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, AP reported. At a news conference Sunday night, Overland Park police Chief John Douglass said it was too early in the investigation to determine if the shootings were hate crimes. Douglass also said there is no indication that the suspect knew any of the victims.

►A morning rush hour bomb killed at least 71 people at a Nigerian bus station on the outskirts of the capital on Monday, raising concerns about the spread of an Islamist insurgency, Reuters reported. Besides the 71 dead, police said 124 were wounded in the first attack on the federal capital in two years. Security experts suspect the explosion was inside a vehicle, said Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, director of search and rescue operations. The bus station, located 5 miles southwest of central Abuja, serves Nyanya, a poor, ethnically and religiously mixed satellite town where many residents work in the city. Though there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion fell locally on Boko Haram, the Islamist militants who are fighting for an Islamic state. They have been particularly active in the country's rural northeast region over the past few months and are increasingly targeting civilians they accuse of collaborating with the government or security forces.

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