New Post Office Will Be Named for Slain Carrier
A post office will be named for the postal worker who was slain in August after the shooting attack on children and workers at the Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills.
The Joseph Ileto Post Office is scheduled to be dedicated after completion of construction in February, officials said. The 39-year-old postal worker, who was killed while substituting for the regular mail carrier on a route in Chatsworth, had lived in the San Bernardino County community with his brother and other family members.
A measure authored by Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) was unanimously approved Monday by the House of Representatives. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is scheduled to carry the bill for passage by the Senate in January.
The naming of the new post office in Ileto’s hometown “seemed like a good match,” said John Cusey, spokesman for Miller. The congressman “contacted the family and they were very happy to have that happen,” Cusey said. The post office is being built at 14071 Peyton Drive.
Joseph Santos Ileto, a Filipino American, was gunned down Aug. 10 as he stopped at the driveway of a home. The alleged killer, Buford O. Furrow Jr., reportedly confessed to authorities that he shot the mailman because he was a nonwhite government employee.
An hour before that shooting, Furrow, a white supremacist who lived in Washington, allegedly wounded three young boys, a teenage camp counselor and a 68-year-old receptionist at the Jewish center.
Furrow is awaiting trial in Los Angeles.
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