Convicted killer ordered to pay postal worker's family $175,000
Thursday February 06, 2003LOS 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.
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