Aug 10, 2009 2:45 pm US/Pacific
Community Marks Slaying, Attack On Jewish Center
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The attack on North Valley Jewish Community Center and the slaying of U.S. postal worker Joseph Ileto by Buford O. Furrow Jr., a white supremacist, took place on August 10, 1999.
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This is the Glock 9mm handgun, allegedly used by Buford O. Furrow to shoot and kill mail carrier Joseph Ileto.
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Postal Worker Joseph Ileto was killed in 1999 by a white supremacist who went on a rampage at a Jewish Community Center.
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Survivors of the Granada Hills Jewish community center attack, as well as the family of a slain letter carrier, gathered Monday to remember the 10th anniversary of the violence.
The attack on North Valley Jewish Community Center and the slaying of U.S. postal worker Joseph Ileto by Buford O. Furrow Jr., a white supremacist, took place on August 10, 1999.
Furrow was equipped with a 9 mm Israeli-designed Uzi submachine gun and a Glock semiautomatic pistol when he arrived at the center and sprayed 70 rounds across the lobby.
Receptionist Isabelle Shalometh, camp counselor Mindy Finkelstein, and day campers James Sidell, Joshua Stepakoff and Benjamin Kadish were wounded in the attack.
Kadish spent 44 days hospitalized and still walks with a limp.
Furrow then carjacked a vehicle and headed to Chatsworth, where Filipino-American Joseph Ileto was filling in on a letter-carrying route. Ileto was shot nine times.
After the violence, Furrow took an $800 cab ride to Las Vegas, where he surrendered, telling police he had sought to kill Jews as a "wake up call to America" and had fatally shot Ileto because he was a man of color working for the federal government.
Furrow is currently at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., serving two life sentences plus 100 years without the possibility of parole.
Federal prosecutors decided to forego the death penalty in light of Furrow's guilty plea to murder and firearm charges and his history of mental illness.
But the attacks from that day have left a lasting impact on the victims, family members and the community a decade later.
"I still have nightmares," Kadish, now 15, recently told the Los Angeles Times.
Finkelstein and Stepakoff are working with Women Against Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence for an Oct. 4 fundraising event called "Victory Over Violence."
(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)
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