Five things about Frazier Glenn Cross

1. Frazier Glenn Cross, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, was the subject of a U.S.-wide manhunt in 1987 for violating the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp. The search ended after federal agents found him and three other men in an Ozark. Mo., mobile home, which was filled with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

2. SITE, a U.S.-based group that monitors terrorist activity, described the suspect as a known and vocal anti-Semite who has called for genocide against Jews. SITE said Monday the suspect is a prominent member of the Vanguard News Network and has posted thousands of messages on the neo-Nazi forum’s website. His most recent post was Saturday.

3. Cross is also known as Frazier Glenn Miller. A public records search shows he has used both names, but he refers to himself on his website as Glenn Miller and went by the name Frazier Glenn Miller in 2006 and 2010 campaigns for public office. He ran for the U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010, espousing a white-power platform.

4. Cross lives in a small single-storey home bordered on three sides with barbed wire fences just outside the small southwest Missouri town of Aurora, about 300 kilometres south of Overland Park. A red Chevrolet bearing two Confederate flag stickers was parked outside.

5. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said the suspect has been involved in the white-supremacist movement for most of his life. He founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was its “grand dragon” in the 1980s. The U.S. army veteran and retired truck driver later founded another whitesupremacist group, the White Patriot Party.