Families of the victims of the 1999 JCC shooting in Los Angeles are suing the state of Washington for allegedly failing to supervise the man who committed the crime. The $15 million lawsuit filed last Friday says the state’s Department of Corrections failed to adequately monitor Buford Furrow Jr., an ex-convict on probation from a Washington state jail.
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