AURORA, Missouri — The killings of three people on the eve of Passover outside two Jewish facilities in a Kansas City suburb are being treated as hate crimes, law enforcement officials said on Monday.

Overland Park, Kan., Police Chief John Douglass and others confirmed that the evidence gathered on Sunday’s shootings support a hate crime presentation to a federal grand jury. State charges could also be sought, said state and federal prosecutors at a televised news conference.

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