This is a photograph of Furrow shot at the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho in 1995 INTERACTIVE: The hunt for the community center gunman Gunfire shatters another U.S. community RELATED VIDEO CNN's Wolf Blitzer reports on the question of jurisdiction for the prosecution of Furrow (August 12) Windows Media 28K 80K CNN's Greg Lefevre interviews Furrow's former neighbors (August 12) Windows Media 28K 80K To view the latest video streams, use the arrow buttons below to scroll through the video gallery.        Windows Media Real        28 K 80 K RELATED AUDIO: Holy Cross Medical Center describe the 5-year-old boy's injuries 219K/20 sec. AIFF or WAV sound  ALSO: Clinton meeting with Jewish leaders today Furrow had deep roots in hate groups Is heavy coverage of mass shootings media overkill? Attack strikes fear in parents, in California and beyond Other multiple shootings this year MESSAGE BOARDS: Mass shootings  Buford Furrow: • Full name: Buford O'Neal Furrow. Some accounts spell his middle name Oneal; he's also known as Buford O. Furrow Jr. Some people call him Neal. • Description: 37 years old; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; 185 pounds; brown, balding hair. • Background: Grew up in Lacey, Washington, a community in Thurston County, 60 miles south of Seattle; family lives in a mobile home on 5 to 7 acres of property. Neighbors say Furrow had recently been living with his parents.

Accused of killing letter carrier

August 12, 1999
Web posted at: 12:36 p.m. EDT (1636 GMT)

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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A suspected neo-Nazi sympathizer accused of killing a postal worker and wounding five people at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles was back in California Thursday to face federal and state charges.

Buford O'Neal Furrow Jr., 37, was returned late Wednesday night under tight security to Los Angeles by helicopter after he waived extradition in a brief court appearance in Las Vegas, where he had fled after eluding a manhunt by hundreds of police officers aided by dogs and helicopters.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has filed a criminal complaint charging Furrow with the murder of a federal employee -- a Philippines-born Postal Service letter carrier shot and killed an hour after a gunman wounded five people at a Los Angeles Jewish community center.

The U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, Joseph Ileto, 39, was killed eight miles from the North Valley Jewish Community Center, about an hour after the attack there injured three children, a teen-ager and an adult.

Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department, FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and U.S. Postal Service flew by helicopter from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on Wednesday to interview Furrow and decide on jurisdiction.

The suspect with a criminal record for assault, who was once married to the widow of a neo-Nazi leader, turned himself in to an FBI field office in Las Vegas at 9 a.m. PT. He was alone and unarmed when he surrendered.

A law enforcement source described the suspect as talkative and cooperative.

"He hasn't stopped talking since he walked into the field office," the source said.

Los Angeles County prosecutors plan to file five state charges of attempted murder against Furrow stemming from the shooting at the community center.

Former skinhead: Furrow attended Hitler Youth Camp

With reports linking Furrow to right wing extremist groups like the Aryan Nations and The Order, former neo-Nazi skinhead Tom Leyden, now a consultant for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said he met Furrow in April 1996 at a Hitler Youth Camp in Heyden Lake, Idaho.

Leyden said Furrow was giving hand-to-hand combat training and his specialty was knife warfare. He said Furrow's philosophy was "hardcore Christian Identity" -- that is, that "the Jews are evil, that the whites are good and the good have to go kill the evil."

The Simon Wiesenthal Center says Furrow may have visited the Museum of Tolerance several months ago.

At a news conference Wednesday, the center said that an employee recognized pictures of Furrow as a man who visited the center, but who was not interested in taking the museum's tours or looking at the exhibits, and was subsequently escorted out of the museum.

Despite reports of possible links to hate groups, Parks said the suspect appeared to be working alone in the Jewish center incident.

Uzi, survival gear and ammo

Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks said investigators have yet to determine a motive for the community center attack, which left a 5-year-old boy in critical condition.

Also wounded in the attack were a 6-year-old boy shot in the buttocks and left leg, an 8-year-old boy shot in the foot, and a 16-year-old teacher's aide who was hit in the thigh and shin. A 68-year-old receptionist who was grazed by bullets was treated and released.

The children were attending a summer camp at the center.

Rabbi Marvin Heir of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said this book, found in the abandoned van, shows 'this (shooting) was not only a hate crime, but a domestic terrorist crime'

The gunman fired at least 70 rounds with a high-powered assault weapon in the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center on Tuesday, then hijacked a waitress' car, which later turned up at a hotel in the Chatsworth section of the San Fernando Valley, 30 miles west of the downtown area.

Police said several weapons were found in the stolen car, left at the hotel.

SWAT team members, wearing bullet-proof vests and armed with machine guns, searched the hotel with canine units.

But the balding, heavyset suspect -- on probation stemming from an assault conviction in Seattle-- eluded capture Tuesday.

Police say Furrow took one taxi from Los Angeles to the Nevada border and took another taxi to Las Vegas. He reportedly spent the night at a hotel before turning himself in to the FBI at 9 a.m.

Earlier, the carjacker had abandoned a red van loaded with high-powered ammunition, an ammo belt, food and survivalist gear, police said.

And investigators have possession of an Uzi that Furrow allegedly used in the Jewish center shootings, but it's unclear where they found the gun.

Police said they also found in the van two books, "Ranger Handbook" for Army Ranger training and "War Cycles -- Peace Cycles" by Richard K. Hoskins. The 1985 book predicts a crackdown on dissidents and an invasion of the United States.

Hoskins is "one of the principal ideologues of Christian Identity," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, which tracks hate groups.

History with violence, hospitals, hate groups

Furrow served five months in jail after pleading guilty earlier this year to second-degree assault in Seattle. He was accused of threatening two nurses at the Fairfax Psychiatric Hospital with a knife.

A woman and her child huddle outside the community center, where police stood guard as parents led their children to the Episcopal church next door, where activities were held for the children

He allegedly told staffers there that he was thinking about suicide and shooting people at a shopping mall.

Furrow was twice referred to the Harborview Medical Center psychiatric unit, where one mental health professional told a CNN reporter, "He was guarded and cordial and in fact was joking and laughing with one other patient in the unit. He took his being in the hospital as one big joke."

Following his arrest in the hospital incident, sheriff's deputies found a 9 mm handgun, ammunition and four knives in his vehicle.

Authorities in Spokane, Washington, said Furrow had been married to the widow of a slain neo-Nazi leader.

She is Debbie Mathews, widow of Robert J. Mathews, the founder of a right-wing white supremacist group known as The Order. He died in a 1984 shootout with the FBI on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound.

After the marriage fell apart, Furrows apparently moved back home to live with his parents near Olympia.

Corry Brown, who has lived across the street from the Furrows for nine years, told CNN that the family's home was "right behind a gunshop and a shooting range."

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