White supremacist guilty of US murders

A Kansas jury convicted Frazier Glenn Miller of killing three people, including a teenage boy, outside two Jewish centers.

The seven-man, five-woman jury deliberated for less than two hours on Monday before convicting Miller of murder, as well as attempted murder for shooting at several other people during a shooting spree in suburban Kansas City.

After the verdict was read, Miller gave the jury a Nazi salute and said he would "die a martyr."

The same jury will decide whether Miller should receive the death penalty for the murders.

Miller, who acted as his own defense counsel although he had no legal experience, admitted to the 2014 killings while on the witness stand last week.

Prosecutor Steve Howe told the jury that a "mountain of evidence" existed against Miller, who despite his anti-Semitic rantings, had killed only Christians during the deadly rampage.

"He wants to be the one who decides who lives and dies," Howe said

Miller was convicted of murdering 14-year-old Reat Underwood and the boy's grandfather, 69-year-old William Corporon, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City.

Terri LaManno, 53, was also shot and killed outside a nearby Jewish retirement home in a separate attack.

Miller, who is wheelchair-bound and sometimes dependent on an oxygen tank due to a lung illness, told the jury that he had risked his life the day he murdered three people in order to do something for the cause of white people.

During his closing statement, Miller said he had been "floating on a cloud" since the killings. Earlier, he objected when the prosecution alleged he wanted to kill as many people as possible.

Miller interjected: "I wanted to kill Jews, not people."

jar/jm (Reuters, AP)