Fredrick Demond Scott was arrested and charged in August 2017 in two killings and named as a suspect in three more.
Scott threatened in 2014 to “kill all white people.”
All five victims were shot. Four were shot in the head — three in the back of the head.
The Kansas City Star reported:
The 22-year-old man suspected of shooting five middle-aged white men since last year — including four on south Kansas City walking trails — threatened in 2014 to shoot up a school and “kill all white people,” according to court records.
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.
Three murders near the Indian Creek Trail remain under investigation. Fredrick Scott is considered a suspect. Call police w/info. @KCTV5 10 pic.twitter.com/8QU1DzL5V2
— Emily Rittman KCTV5 (@EmilyRittman) August 30, 2017
Fredrick Scott was charged with three more murders last week.
KCUR reported:
A grand jury indictment filed Friday accuses Frederick Scott of murdering David Lenox, Timothy Rice and Michael Darby. Scott was charged last summer with killing Karen Harmeyer, Steven Gibbons and John Palmer. Collectively the murders have been dubbed the Indian Creek killings.
Palmer was killed first. His body was found alongside the trail Aug. 19, 2016, near Bannister Road and Lydia Avenue.
Six months later, Lenox was shot while walking his dogs around the grounds of Willow Creek Apartments.
Rice was found April 3, 2017, inside a shelter at Minor Park.
Darby, the co-owner of Coach’s Bar and Grill, was killed May 18, 2017.
The body of Harmeyer, a homeless Grandview woman who lived in a tent in a wooded area behind Faith Ministries church, was discovered last July.
But it was the killing of Gibbons that allowed police to make an arrest. Gibbons was shot in the back of the head in the 1100 block of East 67th Street on Aug. 13 of last year. Video from a KCATA bus showed Scott following Gibbons while drinking a bottled iced tea. DNA from the bottle linked Scott to Palmer’s murder a year earlier.
Will the Southern Poverty Law Center condemn these senseless racist killings?
Alt-left terrorist, who used “Kill all white people” line, as you see many on Twitter use, killed 6 people. This is what the SPLC supports. They must disavow this immediately. https://t.co/2SpWhUFwS1
— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) March 7, 2018
