Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting | |
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Location | First shooting: Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States Second shooting: Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, United States |
Date | August 10, 1999 10:50 a.m. (UTC-7) |
Attack type | Spree shooting, carjacking, hate crime, mass shooting, school shooting |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 5 |
Perpetrator | Buford O. Furrow Jr. (Aryan Nations) |
Motive | antisemitism in the United States |
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 Granada Hills 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.