A racially motivated mass shooting at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles highlighted the threat of domestic white supremacist violence in the United States.
Key Facts
- Date
- August 10, 1999
- Bullets fired
- 70 rounds
- Wounded at JCC
- 5 people
- Children wounded
- 3 children
- Additional victim
- 1 mail carrier murdered after attack
- Perpetrator
- Buford O. Furrow Jr., white supremacist
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Buford O. Furrow Jr., an American white supremacist, harbored extremist anti-Semitic ideology that motivated him to target a Jewish institution. On the morning of August 10, 1999, he arrived at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, with an Uzi submachine gun.
At approximately 10:50 a.m. PT, Furrow entered the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center and opened fire, discharging 70 bullets into the complex. The attack wounded five people, including three children, a teenage counselor, and an office worker, before Furrow fled the scene.
Shortly after the shooting, Furrow fatally shot a mail carrier before fleeing the state. He later surrendered to authorities. The attack intensified national debate about hate crimes, domestic terrorism, and gun control, and drew attention to the dangers posed by organized white supremacist movements within the United States.