Man Kills 3 at 2 Kansas City Area Jewish Centers; Opens Fire at Jewish Community Center, Village

A white supremacist man in his 70s opened fire today (April 13, 2014) outside a Jewish community center and nearby Jewish retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas -- a suburb of Kansas City -- killing three people, the AP website reports.

Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass said at a news conference this evening that a person who had been reported to be in critical condition earlier was among the three killed in the attacks, which apparently occurred just minutes apart.

"Today is a sad and very tragic day," Douglass said. "As you might imagine, we are only three hours into this investigation. There's a lot of innuendo and a lot of assertions going around. There is really very little hardcore information."

Shots were fired behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in a parking lot about 1 p.m., Douglass said. 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, Douglass said.