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Convicted killer ordered to pay postal worker's family $175,000
Thursday February 06, 2003
LOS ANGELES (AP) A white supremacist who wounded three
children at a Jewish day care center in 1999, then shot a
Filipino-American postal worker to death as the man was working on
his route was ordered to pay his murder victim's family $175,000.
Buford Furrow's attack on letter carrier Joseph Ileto violated a
civil rights statute intended to shield people from violence and
intimidation while on the job, the state Fair Employment and
Housing Commission announced in imposing the fine. It was not
immediately clear if Furrow had any ability to pay.
Ileto, 39, was shot nine times Aug. 10, 1999, about an hour
after Furrow fired more than 70 times into the North Valley Jewish
Community Center, which was packed with children attending day-care
programs. Three boys, a teenage girl and a woman were hurt.
Furrow fled to Las Vegas where he surrendered the next day,
announcing he had intended to send a ``wake-up call to America to
kill Jews.''
He is serving life in prison without parole and did not respond
to notices sent by the commission, which took action on behalf of
Ileto's mother.
At his sentencing, Furrow tearfully apologized to his victims
and their families, blaming the attack on mental illness.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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