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Did 'Nazi' Gunman Single Out Jews for Death in Suburban Kansas City Rampage?
The Jewish Daily Forward ^ | April 13, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 04/13/2014 4:37:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A smirking gunman who reportedly shouted Nazi slogans opened fire at a Jewish community center and an old-age home in a suburb of Kansas City, killing three people.

The gunman, said to be an older man, singled out Jewish victims for death, Rabbi Herbert Mandl, a chaplain with the Overland Park Police Department, told CNN.

“Asking someone if you are Jewish before shooting sounds very much like a hate crime,” Mandl said.

Police said two people were killed at the JCC of Greater Kansas City, where children were auditioning for a musical. Despite Mandl’s assertion, the JCC victims were identified as a churchgoing teenage boy and his grandfather.

Rev. Adam Hamilton shared the tragic news at an evening Palm Sunday service at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., the Kansas City Star reported.

“Help us, oh, Lord to grieve as people of hope,” Hamilton told congregants, the paper said.

The third victim, a woman, was shot at Village Shalom, an assisted living facility about a mile away from the JCC.

The victim at the retirement home was an elderly woman who was shot as she walked out of Village Shalom, Mandl said.

Police said two other people were fired upon but not hit.

“It was an act of violence, it’s too early to label it,” said Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass. “We’re investigating it as a (possible) hate crime. We’re investigating it as a criminal act.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: aurora; crime; fraiserglenncrossjr; frasierglennmiller; judaism; kansas; kkk; missouri; nazis; westborobaptist; westborodemocrats
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How disgusting. RIP to the victims.


21 posted on 04/13/2014 5:54:37 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No if they were Jewish, he DIDN’T shoot them


22 posted on 04/13/2014 6:11:37 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: umgud

He liked Jews, he didn’t shoot them if they were Jewish


23 posted on 04/13/2014 6:12:38 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Ann Archy

No the two people he killed were from Church of the Resurrection, our local mega church, Methodist.

The Jewish Community Center in Overland Park has a lot of non-Jewish members.

We don’t hate Jewish people here and we have always intermingled. I grew up swimming at the Jewish Community Center and so did a lot of my Christian friends. I grew up Catholic.


24 posted on 04/13/2014 6:15:06 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

He was exempting Jewish people from his wrath


25 posted on 04/13/2014 6:15:31 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

A Jew would NEVER say “Heil Hitler” so I doubt this guy was Jewish, unless he was setting up an insanity defense.


26 posted on 04/13/2014 6:18:59 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yldstrk

If he liked Jews he wouldn’t have gone to a Jewish Community Center to shoot people..unless he knew specifically that not everyone there was Jewish, but from what the police said he had no connection to the area and did not know his victims


27 posted on 04/13/2014 6:20:35 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

what makes you believe he said Heil Hitler


28 posted on 04/13/2014 6:24:26 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

One of the members said the shooter was a member

doesn’t mean the dude is a member

or that he is Jewish

is there ever a rhyme or reason for these things


29 posted on 04/13/2014 6:25:58 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

That’s what the reporter who heard it believes he heard the suspect yelling..but I guess it could always be proven wrong


30 posted on 04/13/2014 6:39:45 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

yeah reporters...........


31 posted on 04/13/2014 7:00:49 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Shooter is apparently a well-known white supremacist.


32 posted on 04/13/2014 7:03:42 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

uh huh bull

no one knows who it is, reports that he was not from here, then another report that he is a member of the JCC

garbage


33 posted on 04/13/2014 7:10:03 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Ann Archy

Reporter probably doesn’t know the word “synagogue.”

Also, it wouldn’t be weired for a grandfather to be taking a younger teen to Hebrew school or Torah school on a Sunday, based on what I think I know from our Jewish friends.


34 posted on 04/13/2014 7:13:38 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
photo of the freak:


35 posted on 04/13/2014 7:20:47 PM PDT by equalator
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To: equalator

I’m hearing he shouted “Zieg Hiel!” or some such after his arrest.


36 posted on 04/13/2014 7:27:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: cloudmountain

It’s very possible the people who were killed said they were Jewish to give someone else a chance to get away. Terrible situations lead people to do things they wouldn’t do in other circumstances.


37 posted on 04/13/2014 7:31:12 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

a nazi that kills Eagle Scout Methodists who sing? Piece of work, that one.


38 posted on 04/13/2014 7:35:20 PM PDT by equalator
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To: MediaMole
It’s very possible the people who were killed said they were Jewish to give someone else a chance to get away. Terrible situations lead people to do things they wouldn’t do in other circumstances.

With the NUT JOB doing the shooting, I don't think ANYONE was safe.
He needs prison forever.

39 posted on 04/13/2014 7:38:25 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Personal Responsibility
Shooting someone on purpose is a “hate crime”.

There's no such thing as a "Hate Crime". A crime is a crime. Whether it is based on hate, rage, or human indifference, is irrelevant.

40 posted on 04/13/2014 7:39:04 PM PDT by 41Thunder (It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.)
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