Buford O. Furrow, Jr.

Buford O'Neal Furrow, Jr. (born November 25 1961) perpetrated the August 1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting on August 10, 1999, when he attacked a day care center at the North Valley Jewish Community Center. The shooting injured three children, and a receptionist. He also shot dead US Postal Service carrier Joseph Ileto who was Filipino American. Furrow was a member of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations in 1995.

On January 24, 2001 Furrow pleaded guilty all of the counts against him. In exchange for pleading guilty, Furrow avoided a possible death sentence, but was instead sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. According to the indictment, Furrow expressed no regrets for any of his crimes.

Furrow was also an engineer who worked for several years on the B-2 stealth bomber project for Northrop Grumman.

Furrow's former girlfriend was Debbie Mathews, widow of Robert Jay Mathews.

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