Parents Sue Over Shooting Rampage
The parents of a boy badly wounded by a white supremacist in the August 1999 shooting rampage at a Jewish community center are suing the nonprofit corporation that owns it for failing to protect the children in its care.
Eleanor and Charles Kadish, whose son Benjamin was shot in the abdomen and leg by Buford Furrow during the rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, filed their lawsuit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of Benjamin, then 5, and his brother, who saw him shot. The family seeks unspecified damages.
Also named as a defendant is the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles.
The defendants could not immediately be reached for comment.
“At the time of Furrow’s mission, there were no locks on the entry doors . . . no security guards, no emergency plans,” the suit states.
On Jan. 24, Furrow pleaded guilty to wounding Benjamin and four other people at the center and to killing postal worker Joseph Ileto later that day. On March 26, He was sentenced to life in prison.
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