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1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting

One person is killed and five people are injured in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.

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When
Tuesday, August 10 199927 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
20th century · 1990s
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At a glance

Dates: From 1999-08-10.

Deaths reported: 1. Casualties: 5.

What happened

History Buford O'Neal Furrow Jr. (born November 25, 1961) grew up in Lacey, Washington , and graduated from Western Washington University in 1986, with a degree in engineering. During the 1980s, he worked for Boeing and Northrop Grumman and in the 1990s, became involved with white supremacist Richard Girnt Butler 's movement, where he was part of the security detail at Butler's Hayden Lake, Idaho , compound. [ 1 ] Months prior to the shooting,

On August 10, 1999, at around 10:50 a.m. PT, American white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in the Granada Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, and opened fire with an Uzi sub machine gun, firing 70 bullets into the complex. The gunfire wounded five people: three children, a teenage counselor, and an office worker. Shortly thereafter, Furrow murdered a mail carrier, fled the state, and finally surrendered to the authorities.

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