(Vatican Radio) A gunman opened fire at two Jewish facilities near the Kansas City,
United States, on Sunday, killing three people. The shootings occurred at the Jewish
Community Campus at Overland Park and a nearby assisted-living centre, Village Shalom.
A
suspect has been arrested. He is 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, Frazier
Glenn Cross, who was also involved in a neo-Nazi group.
President Barack Obama,
at the Easter season prayer breakfast on Monday morning, deplored the shooting, saying
there was no place for anti-Semitism or other religious-based hatred.
He also
pledged that the federal government will provide whatever assistance is needed to
investigate the attacks, adding: “That this occurred now as Jews were preparing to
celebrate Passover, as Christians were observing Palm Sunday, makes this tragedy all
the more painful. Nobody should have to worry about their security when gathering
with their fellow believers.”