History
Months prior to the shooting, Buford O. Furrow had been treated for mental illness while in the custody of the state of Washington.
He reportedly spent some time living with Debbie Matthews (the widow of Robert Jay Mathews) whom he met at the Aryan Nations headquarters in Idaho.
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