Fredrick Demond Scott
Fredrick Demond Scott, who was charged Tuesday in two killings and named as a suspect in three more, made those statements in January 2014 at Center Alternative School, as documented in a municipal citation for harassment.
Scott, who is black, has been charged with murder in the deaths of Steven Gibbons, 57, and John Palmer, 54. On Tuesday, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced those charges, also naming Scott as a suspect in the killings of David Lenox, 67; Timothy S. Rice, 57, of Excelsior Springs; and Mike Darby, 61, co-owner of Coach's Bar & Grill at 103rd Street and Wornall Road.
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All five were white men between ages 54 and 67. All five were fatally shot, most from behind, in surprise attacks as they walked dogs, visited parks and, in one case, walked down a city street.
Scott's mother said in an interview with The Star that he refused to get treatment for his paranoid schizophrenia but did not show any hatred toward white people. Scott was cited in Kansas City municipal court in 2013 for assault on his mother, accused of shoving her several times. She called police, hoping tough love would help him, she said.
"As far as I know Fredrick never had a problem with white people," his mother said. "He would do odd jobs for people and some of those people were white men."
Police said they did not know if the shootings were racially motivated.
Baker has said she saw no clear motive.
The trail victims were targeted when they were alone in an area Scott knew well, near his home.
After his arrest earlier this month, Scott repeatedly told detectives that he was angry about the 2015 shooting death of his half brother on his father's side, Gerrod H. Woods, 23. Woods was one of two men fatally shot Dec. 14, 2015 during a robbery near East 73rd Street and Wabash Avenue. On Friday, the man convicted in those killings, Jimmie Verge,who is black, was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
A co-worker of Scott's at a south Kansas City Burger King said Scott appeared to be severely damaged by his brother's death.
Police ask public for help, release surveillance from Indian Creek Trail
Kansas City police asked the public for information on June 27, 2017, about a man seen in this surveillance video, which was taken along Indian Creek Trail. The person in this video is not considered a suspect, but is someone police believe "may have vital information" in the homicide of 61-year-old Mike Darby who was found dead the morning of May 18.
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If Scott is responsible for all five deaths, as Baker suggested, he would meet the FBI's standard of a serial killer.
Law enforcement officials close to the investigation described Scott as a loner, saying detectives had struggled to find many people who knew him well.
He had been in trouble with the law before, but not for anything close to murder.
Reader Comments
They are trying so hard to cause a race baited war that it's just stupid. Bashing flags, wrecking statues, and yet somehow this isn't like the taliban huh? It's all a big joke on us by your bilderberg rulers.
How's is it that a mental defective ends up with a gun in the first place, walks all over without any agency checking on his insanity, and then it's a big surprise when Looney Tunes suddenly takes it upon himself to be a mass murder of another race while his own mom said he previously never had any problems with white people?
Come on....this is an obvious operation and this crazy person was picked because they were crazy.
- "threatened in 2014 to shoot up a school and "kill all white people," according to court records."
- Is charged with five murders where "(a)ll five were white men between ages 54 and 67. All five were fatally shot, most from behind, in surprise attacks as they walked dogs, visited parks and, in one case, walked down a city street.
And what do the genius police have to say?
"Police said they did not know if the shootings were racially motivated.
Baker has said she saw no clear motive. "
(A/k/a, the only people who can not be victims of race hate are white males.)
Beyond that, 'hate crimes' are 'thought crimes' and we've never needed to criminalize the thoughts that make up 'hatred'; we just simply needed to prosecute actions/events.
R.C.