On Aug. 12, in 1999, white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. was charged with murder and five counts of attempted murder following an attack on a Los Angeles Jewish community center and the shooting death of a Filipino-American postal worker. Two days earlier, Furrow, a member of the Aryan Nations, walked into the community center lobby and sprayed automatic gunfire, shooting three children, a teenage counselor and a receptionist at the community center.
Furrow fled and spotted mail carrier Joseph Santos Ileto and shot him in the chest, later saying Ileto was a good target because he was a non-white federal worker.
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Furrow then took a $800 cab ride to Las Vegas and walked into an FBI office, saying, “You’re looking for me, I killed the kids in Los Angeles.”
-Scott McCabe
