`Racist' admits shootings

Los Angeles - The neo-Nazi sympathiser accused of murdering a Filipino-American postman and shooting people at a Jewish centre…

Los Angeles - The neo-Nazi sympathiser accused of murdering a Filipino-American postman and shooting people at a Jewish centre has admitted he killed the man for racial reasons, officials said yesterday.

Buford Furrow gave himself up to FBI agents in Las Vegas on Wednesday, saying, "I killed the kids in Los Angeles." He was referring to the three boys and two women who wounded when a gunman opened fire at the North Valley Jewish Community Centre on Tuesday. The attack came about an hour before the murder of the postal worker, Joseph Ileto.

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