Remembering the 1999 Jewish Community Center shootings

Rob Hershenson of Stevenson Ranch listens to speakers Monday during a service recalling the shooting rampage 10 years ago at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills. Three boys, a teenage girl who worked as a camp counselor and a female receptionist were injured by a white supremacist’s gunfire. A Filipino American mail carrier was also later killed. The Southern California Center for Jewish Life in Santa Clarita hosted the anniversary program.
10 years later: Survivors of Jewish community center attack urge tolerance, reform (Jake Danna Stevens / Los Angeles Times)

April 13, 2014 2:20 PM PT

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In 1999, five people were shot at the center in Granada Hills.

Children from the North Valley Jewish Community Center are escorted to safety after the shooting. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Children are escorted down Rinaldi Street by Los Angeles police officers after being rescued from the North Valley Jewish Community Center. (George Wilhelm / Los Angeles Times)

One of the victims of the community center shootings is wheeled away to be transported to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

SWAT officers with the Los Angeles Police Department search for the suspect in the North Valley Jewish Community Center shootings. Buford O. Furrow Jr. later pleaded guilty to the rampage. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

A distraught parent seeks information about her child from a police officer at a barrier down the street from the North Valley Jewish Community Center. (George Wilhelm / Los Angeles Times)