Jewish Centers Beef Up Security After Kans. Shootings

Jewish community centers and synagogues nationwide are enhancing security measures in the wake of Sunday’s shootings at two nonprofit Jewish facilities in the Kansas City suburbs, USA Today reports.

Police have increased patrols around Jewish centers in several cities, and organizations are asking members to be vigilant in reporting suspicious activity. More than 400 Jewish leaders took part in a conference call Monday with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and FBI officials, according to Paul Goldenberg of the Secure Community Network, a nonprofit that advises Jewish groups on security and crisis response.

Frazier Glenn Cross of Aurora, Mo., a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of running racist paramilitary groups, was arrested Sunday and charged with killing three people at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and the Village Shalom retirement home, both in Overland Park, Kan.