Granada Hills Jewish Community Center Shooting
 On August 10, 1999 at 10:50 a.m. white supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr. walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and opened fire with a semiautomatic assault weapon, unloading 70 shots into the complex. Five people, including three children, a teenage counselor and an office worker were shot. The shootings ended with the death of postal worker Joseph Santos Illeto in Chatsworth – a few miles away from the center. Furrow fled 275 miles to Las Vegas where he eventually walked into an FBI office and confessed. Furrow said he wanted the shooting to be a “wakeup call to America to kill Jews.” In January, 2001 Furrow plead guilty to crimes to avoid the death penalty. Click for video
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