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| WADOC pays $2.25 million for rampage |
| By The Seattle Times |
| Published: 03/13/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - The state Department of Corrections will pay $2.25 million to five children who were shot or traumatized when a parolee from Washington attacked a California Jewish community center in August 1999. "We all try to make sense of these senseless acts of hate and violence," Corrections Secretary Eldon Vail said in a news release Wednesday. "I hope in some small way these families will be able to find peace and resolution." Buford Furrow Jr., formerly of Olympia, had been out of prison for three months following an assault conviction when he stormed the North Valley Jewish Community Center in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles, firing 70 bullets and injuring three boys, a teenage girl who worked as a camp counselor and a female receptionist. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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