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Ariz. home invasion suspects tied to border group

The Associated Press
2:37 p.m. June 13, 2009

TUCSON, Ariz.

Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

Jason Eugene Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges, said Sheriff Clarence Dupnic of Pima County, Ariz.

The trio are alleged to have dressed as law enforcement officers and forced their way into a rural Arivaca home on May 30, wounding a woman and fatally shooting her husband and their 9-year-old daughter. Their motive was financial, Dupnic said.

"The husband who was murdered has a history of being involved in narcotics and there was an anticipation that there would be a considerable amount of cash at this location as well as the possibility of drugs," Dupnic said.

Forde is the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a small border watch group, and Bush goes by the nickname "Gunny" and is its operations director, according to the group's Web site. She is from Everett, Wash., has recently been living in Arizona and was once associated with the better known and larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

A statement attributed to officers of Forde's group and posted on its Web site on Saturday extended condolences to the victims' families and said the group doesn't condone such acts and will cooperate with law enforcement.

The assailants planned to leave no one alive, Dupnic said at a press conference in Tucson on Friday. He said Forde was the ringleader.

"This was a planned home invasion where the plan was to kill all the people inside this trailer so there would be no witnesses," Dupnic said. "To just kill a 9-year-old girl because she might be a potential witness to me is just one of the most despicable acts that I have heard of."

Dupnic said Forde continued working through Friday to raise a large amount of money to make her anti-illegal immigrant operation more sophisticated.

Forde denied involvement as she was led from sheriff's headquarters.

"No, I did not do it," she said. "I had nothing to do with it."

Gaxiola also denied involvement; Bush was arrested at a Kingman, Ariz., hospital where he was being treated for a leg wound he allegedly received when the woman who survived the attack managed to get a gun and fire back.

Killed were 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her 29-year-old father, Raul Junior Flores. The name of the wounded woman who survived the attack hasn't been released.

Forde is well known in the anti-illegal immigration community, said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino.

"She's someone who even within the anti-immigration movement has been labeled as unstable," Levin said. "She was basically forced out of another anti-immigrant group, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, and then founded her own organization."


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Arrests in home-invasion killings in Pima County

Jun. 12, 2009 05:17 PM
Associated Press .

TUCSON - Investigators say they have made three arrests in a home invasion in southern Arizona where a man and his 9-year-old daughter were fatally shot and a woman was wounded.

At a news conference Friday, the Pima County Sheriff's Office said 34-year-old Jason Eugene Bush, 41-year-old Shawna Forde and 42-year-old Albert Robert Gaxiola have been taken into custody in the May 30 killings 10 miles north of the Mexican border in the community of Arivaca.

Authorities said several men and a woman claiming to be police officers forced their way into the home in the middle of the night, killing 29-year-old Raul Junior Flores and his daughter, Brisenia Flores. The girl's mother was wounded but is recovering.

Detectives believe the three suspects targeted the home with the intention of stealing money and drugs.

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Just so everybody knows, the group Shawna Forde belonged to, the Minutemen American Defense, is a completely different organization than the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC).

Shawna Forde again? Wasn't she the one who claimed to be assaulted and shot by MS-13 last year? And Jim Gilchrist backed her story?

Wasn't Forde also accused of lying to police about getting beaten up in an alley for her anti-immigration stance?

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Wasn't Forde also accused of lying to police about getting beaten up in an alley for her anti-immigration stance?

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