Department of Corrections Pays $2.25 Million in Jewish Center Shootings Case

The Washington Department of Corrections has reached a $2.25 million settlement with the victims of a shooting which took place at a Jewish community center in 1999, according to the Los Angeles Times. The lawsuit claimed that the corrections department failed to adequately supervise or visit the home of the assailant, who was then a parolee. Four children and a receptionist where injured in the shootings, and a mail carrier was killed. The gunman, a self-avowed white supremacist who intended the shootings as a "wake-up call to America to kill Jews," is now serving a life sentence. The Los Angeles Times reported that a settlement had been reached previously with the pawnshop where the assailant had pawned and then re-obtained his murder weapon.

 

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