A white supremacist pleaded guilty to charges that he killed a Filipino- American postman after wounding four people at a Jewish community center during an August 1999 rampage in the Los Angeles area. Buford O. Furrow Jr. entered the guilty plea on murder and hate-crime charges as part of a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty.
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