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Minutemen Accused of Murdering Latino Family
by Mariela Rosario | 06.16.2009 | 9:45am | 1 Comment

Shawna Forde, mastermind of the robbery and murder and founder of MAD
Shawna Forde, 41, Jason Eugene Bush, 34, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been accused by police for a home invasion attack on May 30th in the border town of Arivaca, AZ which left Raul Junior Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, shot dead.

Forde has been known to harbor anti-immigrant feelings—even claiming at one point last year that she was being targeted by Mexican Drug Cartels—and was a longstanding member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Forde was ousted by the Minutemen two years ago for "conduct unbecoming of a member" and went on to form her own anti-immigration group: Minutemen American Defense. "We will expose and report what we know and find, we will recruit the serious and train the revolutionist, time for words have passed the time for bravery and conviction are now," Forde stated as the mission of MAD.

Police say the attack on Flores's home was part of a plan to steal money and drugs in order to fuel Forde's new operation. Pima County Sheriff's spokeswoman Dawn Barkman confirmed, "Shawna was actually the ringleader." Forde's mother confirmed that her daughter had talked of going down to Arizona and staging home invasions to "start taking things away from the Mexican mafia."

Pima County Sheriff's Department explained that the trio planned to steal what they could and kill any witnesses. The plan went awry after they entered the Flores household and killed Raul and his daughter, apparently Flores's wife was able to find a firearm in the house and began to return fire, injuring Bush, who was then arrested a few days later at a nearby hospital. All three have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

http://www.latina(Dot)com/lifestyle/news-politics/minutemen-accused-murdering-latino-family

Pima County Sheriff's Dept. releases 911 call of Arivaca murder.

It is a long tape. Arivaca is 30 miles from the Sheriff's office and usually no deputies are nearby unless called. The dispatcher stays on the line with the wife until deputies arrive. The woman on the phone was also shot and she just watched her husband and daughter die, so if you are squeamish you might not want to listen.

http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/mediaskin ... hp?id=2220

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/297297.php

Warning: This is a disturbing tape. Dixie

got this in email

AMERICA'S VOICE: Forde Member of Fair (open border group)

AMERICA'S VOICE
james-

A nine-year-old girl and her father were murdered while they slept.

Police now suspect that last month's killer was a leader of the Minutemen American Defense and representative of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), joined by two other Minutemen. The three anti-immigrant activists are accused of breaking down the door of the Flores family's home, ransacking their house, and gunning down 9-year-old Brisenia and her father in order to fund their "border watch" activities.

Up until now, the mainstream media has mostly ignored the story.

We cannot let Brisenia's story go untold - to remain silent in the face of this kind of extremism.

Click here to learn more about what happened and to share this horrific story with those close to you.

You've seen the Minutemen and FAIR on television - they're quoted as mainstream "immigration control advocates." Congressmen call on leaders from FAIR to testify before their committees as immigration experts. CNN even broadcasts FAIR's hate-speech on the Lou Dobbs show, blaming immigrants for everything from global warming to traffic congestion. All you have to do is watch these folks scream "illegal alien" to get their agenda: making immigrants seem less than human.

I've asked you to speak out against hate crimes before and will keep asking you to let Congress know what kind of America you want to live in. Today, however, I'm asking you to fight intolerance and extremism by shedding light on it. By telling the story of it. By not remaining silent.

Please click here to tell Brisenia's story today, even though the media won't.

Together, we can turn the tide on this culture of hatred and intolerance and stand up for the values that we all share.

Sincerely,
Adam Luna
America's Voice

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ask em where the stories are about the girl in NY and the two in Nebraska with in the last month who were killed by illegals. I never got an email about them

i left a comment on the main page under the youtube video, whatcha wanna bet it gets removed before the day is over because i posted about the three american kids killed by illegals

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Latest Article added to the homepage

http://www.alipac.us/article4306.html

What the article fails to say is that she presented FALSE ID to gain access to Camp Vigilance! Whe had been kicked out of MCDC for over a year and still had her ID card with her. So yes we (our caretaker of one week) let her on the property! After about 1 hour he called me and told me who they were! I had him immediatley escort them off the property! She NEVER did ANY sort of training at camp! I checked the sign in records back as far as we keep them (YEARS) and she was never there.

Ken

Arizona killings highlight risk of fringe activists

Jun. 19, 2009 11:21 AM
Associated Press

The tagline on Shawna Forde's anti-illegal immigration Web site says her group was "doing the job our government won't do." They wanted to patrol the border, but her small band of activists needed money to do it.

So, authorities say, Forde and two men dressed up as Border Patrol agents and broke into the southern Arizona home of a man they thought was a drug dealer, hunting for money or drugs to sell. They found neither, but killed the man and his 9-year-old daughter.

The May 30 killings rocked an anti-illegal immigration movement that prides itself on being vocal but not violent, and added to a growing list of activists unafraid of using violence to advance their aims.

In recent weeks, a White supremacist was accused of killing a Black guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and an ardent abortion foe allegedly shot and killed a prominent Kansas abortion doctor.

The possibility that activists in the anti-illegal immigration movement would use violence did not surprise Heidi Beirich, research director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.

"We figured for a long time that we were going to get violence out of this movement," she said.

Her organization says the number of hate groups nationwide has risen 54 percent since 2000, fueled by opposition to Hispanic immigration and, more recently, by the election of the nation's first Black president and the economic downturn.

Several groups focusing on stopping illegal immigration formed in the past half-dozen years, and many were drawn to southern Arizona, the busiest corridor in the nation for illegal border crossings.

While the movement has been largely peaceful, it seemed a matter of time before someone would be accused of resorting to violence.

"Some are using the movement to promote their own bigoted, racist ideology," said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino. "But I want to be clear: That's not everyone in the movement, and it poses a real problem."

He said the movement's message attracts people with ulterior motives. Larger groups try to patrol their ranks for potentially troublesome people but have no power to stop exiles like Forde from starting splinter groups, and even from using the Minuteman name.

After the killings, some of the movement's leaders quickly distanced themselves from Forde and her Minutemen American Defense group, saying they warned for months that she was potentially dangerous.

"We knew that Shawna Forde was not just an unsavory character but pretty unbalanced as well," said Chris Simcox, the founder of one of the original border watch groups, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

Forde, charged along with the other men with murder and other counts, declined interview requests, but she had denied involvement in the killings when she was led away after her arrest.

Before coming to Arizona, Forde, 41, lived in Everett, Wash., where she ran for the city council in 2007 promising to allow police to check the immigration status of suspects, according to local news accounts.

She became a lighting rod in the community of 100,000 north of Seattle and famous in anti-illegal immigration circles when she alleged that her ex-husband was shot and that she was raped, beaten and shot in retaliation for her immigration activities.

The allegations caught fire and Forde drew a following among online border security advocates. Everett police are investigating her claims but have not made any arrests, police said. Some leaders of the anti-illegal immigration movement said her story didn't add up and that Forde was lying.

In October, Forde showed up at a border-watch event organized by Simcox's group, he said. She bragged about her own group and said it would be going after drug cartels, which made Simcox worry about the safety of other Minutemen, he said.

"You don't go pissing off the drug cartels," Simcox said. "That was something we were not really happy about."

Simcox said the fact that his group kicked Forde out in 2007 amid allegations of lying and pretending to be a senior leader proves that the anti-illegal immigration movement is effectively policing itself.

Her group was small and unorganized, with about 14 members and no formal meetings or activities, said Chuck Stonex, a former group member from Alamogordo, N.M., who severed his ties to the organization following Forde's arrest.

Forde claimed to have reconnaissance and covert mission teams that she called "Delta One Operations" but she refused to identify their members or activities, Stonex said.

She often talked about buying 40 acres of land for staging border surveillance activities in southern Arizona, but she would get angry when Stonex asked her how she planned to pay for it, he said.

Stonex and Forde once talked about what they would do if they encountered a truck full of drugs in the desert, according to Stonex. Forde said she knew a guy who would sell the drugs and give them 60 percent of the proceeds.

"She had her own private agenda," Stonex said. "She was doing her own thing, and she wasn't concerned about who she hurt."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... 19-ON.html

Also found this new article that explains that Bush wasn't already in the hospital, but he was taken into the hospital after he was found.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Bush sought for double homicide, home invasion

KINGMAN - Mohave County Sheriff's detectives were instrumental in the arrest of one of three suspects wanted in a home invasion robbery and double homicide in Pima County.

MCSO detectives arrested Jason Eugene Bush, 34, in Meadview Thursday evening on a felony fugitive from justice warrant issued out of Chelan County, Wash.

Pima County Sheriff's deputies alerted MCSO to the possible whereabouts of Bush on Thursday.

At 6:41 p.m., the MCSO Tactical Operations Unit along with the Kingman Police Department Bomb Squad responded to a residence on Iceberg Canyon Drive in Meadview.

Bush was taken into custody without incident and transported to Kingman Regional Medical Center where he was treated for a minor gunshot wound to his leg. He was released to MCSO custody on Friday and booked into the Mohave County Jail.

Bush is one of three people accused of breaking into a home on May 30 in Arivaca, a town 10 miles north of the Mexican border in Pima County. The other two suspects, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, all originally from Washington, were arrested Friday on the road near Tucson. Forde had recently moved to Arizona.

Forde and Gaxiola have denied involvement in the crime.

According to the PCSO, the three, dressed as law enforcement officers, forced their way into the home at 1 a.m. and fatally shot 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her 29-year-old father, Raul Junior Flores. They also wounded Flores' wife. PCSO has not released the name of the woman.

PCSO believes Bush was the one who shot Flores and his daughter.

According to the Associated Press, Bush is also wanted in connection with the 1997 stabbing death of a Hispanic man in Wenatchee, Wash.

The Everett, Wash., Herald also lists Bush as a suspect in a home invasion robbery in Shasta Lake, Calif.

Bush has been in and out of prison for numerous crimes, according to the Herald, and may have ties to Aryan Nation groups.

All three suspects have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, first-degree burglary and aggravated assault.

PCSO believes the home invasion and shooting was motivated by money.

"The husband who was murdered has a history of being involved in narcotics and there was an anticipation that there would be considerable amount of cash at this location as well as the possibility of drugs," PCSO Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told KOVA, Channel 4 in Tucson on Friday. Dupnik called Forde the ringleader of the group and said they planned to leave no one behind alive.

"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," Dupnik said.

The plan was to use money from the home invasion to fund Forde's Minutemen American Defense organization.

According to the Seattle Times, Forde was ousted from the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in Washington two years ago for violating the group's operating procedures and behaving inappropriately.

The nationwide group is known to patrol the Canadian and Mexican borders in an attempt to prevent illegal immigration. The group has had no further contact with Forde since she left.

She then formed her own group, the Minutemen American Defense. Bush was a member of the group.

Officers from the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have offered their condolences to the Flores family on its Web site and do not condone the actions of Forde, Bush or Gaxiola. It has also pledged to work with law enforcement in the investigation of the shooting incident. The group plans to continue monitoring borders for illegal immigration and smuggling activities.

According to the Seattle Times, Forde reported a series of attacks against herself and her ex-husband last year. She allegedly told police that the attacks came from the Mexican drug cartels. She later said the attacks might have come from friends of her adult son.

According to the Everett Herald, Forde has been in and out of trouble with the law since she was 11 years old.

http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.a ... leID=31978

Mother says alleged ringleader had 'a strong drive to be famous'
By Tim Steller
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.21.2009
Shawna Forde has a "strong drive to be famous," her mother said.
Maybe, Rena Caudle said, that helps explain how Forde went from a person who expressed no particular interest in border issues to founding a group called Minutemen American Defense and talking about taking armed action against drug traffickers.
It brought her the attention of others in a movement dominated by middle-aged and older men, and it got her coverage in the news media.
Now Forde appears destined for a different sort of fame. She is accused of leading a home invasion against the family of an alleged Arivaca drug trafficker, killing a 9-year-old girl and her father, and wounding the girl's mother.
Some of the problems associated with Forde may have begun when she was a toddler, her mother said. Caudle put her up for adoption at about 18 months old, and Forde alleged she was abused by her adoptive family.
When Forde tracked down her birth mother at about age 20, Caudle met a daughter who could be kind, but often to serve her own needs.
"She would play people, and she would have no conscience about it," Caudle said by phone from Redding, Calif. "I thought maybe she had sociopathic tendencies."
But Caudle said: "I always said having Shawna around was like having a whirlwind coming through the house."
Although Forde declined an interview request, she has lived much of her adult life in full public view. She has a criminal record in her home state, Washington. She also ran for City Council in Everett — and lost in a campaign marred by her arrest on suspicion of shoplifting.
She has spoken out about border issues on videos posted on the Internet, been married and divorced four times, and became embroiled in a strange series of incidents that brought her significant attention in the Everett Herald newspaper this year.
On Dec. 22, Forde's husband was shot in their Everett home. Forde initially spoke with police about it, then missed several appointments to be interviewed by police again, Everett police Sgt. Robert Goetz said.
A week after the shooting, while Forde's husband was still hospitalized, Forde reported being raped and beaten in the home. A detailed description of the incident, with photos, appeared on her group's Web site, the Herald reported. Forde initially blamed the attacks on Mexican drug cartels she said were angry with her, but she later changed her story.
Then, on Jan. 15, Forde was found in an Everett alley with a gunshot wound in her arm, Goetz said. She told police that while she was walking home at night someone came up behind her, she turned around and was shot.
Early this year, Forde told her brother, Merrill Metzger, and her mother that she planned to start attacking drug traffickers on the Arizona-Mexico border and robbing them to fund her group's activities, family members said.
Now, Pima County investigators say she actually tried to carry out the plan, starting with the home invasion in Arivaca.
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/297956



Published: 06.21.2009

Arivaca wonders if 'live, let live' let girl, 9, die
Killings of child, father are woven into a tapestry of drugs in this town of loosely close-knit people
By Tim Steller
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
ARIVACA — "Live and let live" — the phrase arises often when Arivaca residents talk about their little town.
Many people come here to live together in a vast, arid landscape, but not so closely as to be in their neighbors' business.
After the May 30 home-invasion murders of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, Raul Flores, some wonder whether they have been intrusive enough. After his murder, authorities said Flores, known as Junior, was a well-known marijuana trafficker.
Maggie Milinovitch, who co-owns the local bar, La Gitana, and runs a monthly publication, Connection, said she and some other Arivaca residents feel guilty over Brisenia's death.
"We're a community that shares parenthood — we watch out for each other's children whenever we can, and the loss of a child is a failure in being aware of the danger," she wrote in an e-mail.
Local residents remained emotionally raw last week over the murders. In the bar and at the taco stand, residents broke into tears when asked about it.
Anthony Coulson, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Tucson office, said he thinks the girl's death resulted from a community failure.
"Raul Flores was a drug trafficker," Coulson said, noting that his agency was actively investigating Flores as a central player in the area's smuggling. "I think the majority of the people there are sympathetic and tolerant of the trafficking that goes on."
But others say the situation is not so clear-cut. Arivacans, they say, have long worked to balance the anarchistic local tendencies with community standards, if not always laws.
Sandy Rosenthal, commander of the Pima County Sheriff's Department's Green Valley District, said Arivaca residents "do report to us and do help us and are involved in their community."
What makes Arivaca tick
To understand Arivaca, you have to understand that most people who live there chose it.
They came to escape the city. They came for the loose but friendly community. They came for the oasis quality of this low, green spot in the high desert.
When hippies began migrating to the area in the early 1970s, the population could be counted in the low hundreds, and the hippies were not welcomed. Today, the area's population may exceed 1,000, and the aging hippies run many of the unincorporated town's institutions.
"They didn't want us here when we first got here, but we've outlived them," said Michael Armour, who came to Arivaca with his brother, Danny, in 1973.
Both sat on the patio at La Gitana last week, enjoying an afternoon drink in this spot about 13 miles north of the Mexican border and 45 minutes' drive from the nearest Sheriff's Department office.
The area's relationship with contraband goes way back, as local librarian and Arivaca native Mary N. Kasulaitis found while researching the 1870s Arivaca mining boom. E.B. Gage, a mining superintendent in the area, wrote in a letter:
"There is a great deal of smuggling between Sonora and Tucson, which would naturally be done nearer the line if it could be. In this respect it might not be profitable to have a military post too near us."
For the intervening decades, smuggling has remained a fact of life around Arivaca, especially after the marijuana trade picked up in the 1970s. In that era, the new Arivacans learned to police themselves, Danny Armour said.
When a sheriff's deputy began aggressively patrolling the area in 1997, some residents protested vociferously, saying he had crossed the line from enforcement to harassment.
Smuggling remains economically significant, bringing new money into an area with few other sources of income. But in the 21st century, the "military post" Gage referred to has finally arrived in the form of a constant Border Patrol presence, highway checkpoints and "virtual fence" towers being built around town.
"Maybe six years ago, I would have told you that Arivaca is an island of private land surrounded by state and federal land that you can get out and enjoy," said Roger Beal, co-owner of the town's grocery store, the Arivaca Mercantile. "Now it's changed. If you went out in the desert, you'd probably be challenged as to why you're there."
On June 11, about 12 miles southeast of town, three employees of the Arizona Game and Fish Department and Pima County were fired upon by four men wearing camouflage.
Arivaca, Beal said, "is getting less remote."
Outsiders coming in
Smugglers and government agents aren't the only outsiders appearing in the Arivaca area.
Humanitarian groups such as the Green Valley Samaritans, which patrol area roads to help border crossers, appear regularly in town.
During lunch at the taco stand last week, Samaritan member Bethia Daughenbaugh said the group has had an almost exclusively positive response from local residents.
South of town about five miles and up a rutted, rocky drive, younger members of No More Deaths camp on private land with the owner's permission. They take desert hikes looking for endangered border crossers, camping on and crossing private property they've been allowed to use.
"I've never had a bad encounter," said Jimmy Wells, a veteran of several summers working for the group.
While many locals sympathize with these groups, relatively few seem to support the more hard-line border-watch groups, such as those bearing the Minuteman name.
Two of the people charged with the home-invasion murders, Shawna Forde and Jason E. Bush, led a small group called Minutemen American Defense based in Everett, Wash. Investigators say they carried out the attack as the beginning of a violent campaign to steal money and drugs from drug traffickers. The group planned to use its haul to fund its activities, investigators said.
Such people occasionally show up in town on the way to camp-outs closer to the border, several residents said. But they hang around only rarely. Forde appeared a few times at La Gitana recently, customers said.
"Most people who live here can't stand the Minutemen," Robin Warren said as she worked at the Gadsden Coffee Co.'s cafe.
Said Beal, of the Arivaca Mercantile: "There's not an Arivaca border watch at all."
The "meth heads"
Another group of occasional interlopers is what locals — with equal measures of disdain and sympathy — call "meth heads."
They first appeared in the mid-1990s and have sprung up occasionally since, in cycles that usually end in self-destruction, Danny Armour said.
Tucsonan Jay Ramsey, 30, said he's had to deal with the meth heads around Arivaca. Ramsey showed up at the Mercantile last week on an ATV, wearing a pistol in a holster and flip-flops on his feet. He spends about half his time in Arivaca, he said, where his parents have retired.
His parents love Arivaca, he said, but they had to shoo off methamphetamine addicts who set up a trailer on their property. Meth addicts also started living on a neighboring property that belongs to Robert Devine, a longtime Arivaca resident in prison for killing his girlfriend in 2001.
Ramsey's mother, Susan, struck up a correspondence with the prisoner about the problem, she said. In the community spirit typical of Arivaca residents, Devine gave Susan Ramsey power of attorney over the property.
"He thought meth was a horrible drug, and he wanted to help get it out of Arivaca," she said.
That sort of cooperation might seem unusual in some places, but it's not so strange in a place where people are used to working things out without getting the authorities involved.
"You're in charge of your own destiny out here," Beal said.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/297952

Arivaca slaying suspect cites mental woes in statements
By Marisa Gerber
For the Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.21.2009
A 1998 court declaration, in which he says, "I cannot control my own behavior," calls him Jason Bush.
A posting on a Web site, in which he's named "operations director" of a border-watch group, calls him Gunny.
And the 911 call placed May 30 — in which Gina Flores describes a triggerman who cold-bloodedly fired bullets into her husband and daughter — calls him a tall white male who wore blackface paint and camouflage clothes.
Bush was one of the three people arrested June 12, after a man and his daughter were killed, and the man's wife was wounded, during an invasion of their Arivaca home. Investigators accuse Bush of being the triggerman.
Information compiled about Bush from court records, Web sites and his daily planner — given to a Star photographer in Arivaca — offer new insight into the accused killer's background.
"For most of my life since the age of eleven or twelve, I have had an experience of being outside of myself, of watching another person take over my body," Bush said in a 1998 court declaration, after being charged with theft and other crimes. "I start going haywire, and I don't know what I'm doing or why."
In the declaration, he said he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia around age 12. By the time he made that declaration, Washington state prosecutors now say, he had already begun associating with white supremacists and in 1997 had killed someone — a sleeping, homeless Hispanic man stabbed seven times in Wenatchee.
He wasn't charged with that murder until June 12 of this year.
Two pages of Bush's planner are labeled "medical history." They contain a list of medications and dosages to treat seizures, migraine headaches, anxiety, depression and severe pain. One page says:
Head injury - Oct 4 - 2007
Seizures Rt. leg parylized
Migraines amnesia + disoriented
Extremly light sensitive (Spelling errors are repeated from the planner.)
The Minutemen American Defense Web site described Bush as "Gunny," common shorthand for a Marine Corps gunnery sergeant, and said, "He served 6 tours over seas."
However, the Marine Corps says it has no record of Bush. Representatives of the the Navy and the Army said the same thing. The Air Force could not conduct a complete records check but found no record of Bush dating to 2004.
The description of Bush as a seasoned veteran is one of several hints at a fantasy of being in the military or in law enforcement.
At the home invasion in Arivaca, according to investigators and the victim's 911 call, Bush wore camouflage, falsely identified himself as a law-enforcement officer and told the victims Border Patrol agents were surrounding the property.
About a week after the shootings in Arivaca, two men impersonating U.S. Marshals Service agents invaded a home near Redding, Calif. Authorities said Bush was in Northern California at the time, and they are investigating whether he was involved.
Bush also kept a copy of a document labeled "Special Forces Creed" in his planner. It begins by saying, "I am an American Special Forces Soldier. A professional!"
Contacted at an eastern Washington phone number, Bush's father, Don, expressed sympathy for the families of the accused perpetrators and victims of the Arivaca attack.
Bush, who declined to be interviewed, is in an isolated medical room at the Pima County jail on a $5 million secured bond. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree burglary and one count of aggravated assault.
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/297943

Crime doesn't seem to fit 'nice guy'
By Tim Steller
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.21.2009
ARIVACA — People here can't square their images of Albert R. Gaxiola.
They refer to Gaxiola, 42, as a nice guy, even a sweetheart. He's the guy who won a poker tournament at Tom Shook's house last year, then tried to give money back to the other players, said Shook, an Arivaca coffeehouse owner.
How could he have participated in the execution-style murders of a 9-year-old local girl and her father?
"I can't wrap my head around what happened," said Maggie Milinovitch, co-owner of Arivaca's only bar, La Gitana.
Pima County Sheriff's Department investigators said they think Gaxiola was enlisted by ringleader Shawna Forde to provide information about drug traffickers in the Arivaca area. Gaxiola declined an interview request.
In a 911 call, the surviving victim of the shootings said a Mexican man came in the door after the victims were shot by a white man accompanied by a white woman. Gaxiola is in the Pima County jail, charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated assault and one count of burglary.
Gaxiola grew up in Fresno, Calif., raised mostly by his aunt and uncle in what was described as a good environment, 1991 court documents said. He moved to Arizona after high school and got involved in the marijuana business.
Gaxiola was convicted in 1991 of conspiring to sell marijuana in a Tucson case. In his early 20s, he helped marijuana seekers try to buy about 100 pounds, police reports say.
He spent about eight years in prison and was released in 2000. That didn't make him an outcast in Arivaca, Milinovitch said.
"I knew that he had been in prison. Many people in Arivaca have been in prison, and many have been reformed," she said.
Like many Arivaca residents, Gaxiola enjoys the outdoors. In February, after the jaguar known as Macho B was captured, collared and released near Arivaca, local resident Janay Brun learned that radio transmissions showed that he seemed to be in trouble.
She said in an April interview that she and Gaxiola bought steaks and hiked into the area where the jaguar was holed up.
The fact that he may have participated in the home invasion and killings is something local friends can't comprehend.
Said local resident Michael Armour: "There ain't people that mean in this town."

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/297954.php

dregerk wrote:

If anyone of these reporters were to contact camp they would of gotten the story correct! Did they? NO!

Unfortunately, sensationalism is what sells papers, not the truth.

Gunshots are recorded on 911 tape from Arivaca slayings
19-minute edited call
By Daniel Newhauser
Published Friday, June 19, 2009 9:17 AM MDT

Details are emerging in the murder of an Arivaca man and his 9-year-old daughter as an associate of the suspects, the revelation of their troubled pasts, and the release of the 911 call further illuminate the events of May 30 and the days following.

About 10 gunshots can be heard during a minute-long gunfight on the 19-minute, edited call from the mother of Brisenia Flores.

“Get the (expletive) out of here,â€