By JESSE McKINLEY and MALIA WOLLAN
The New York Times
June 27. 2009
ARIVACA, Ariz. — “Somebody just came in and shot my daughter and my husband!” the woman shouted to the 911 dispatcher. “They’re coming back in! They’re coming back in!”
Multiple gunshots are then heard on a tape of the call.
The woman, Gina Gonzalez, survived the attack after arming herself with her husband’s handgun, but both he and their 10-year-old daughter died.
The killings, last month, have terrified this small town near the Mexican border, in part because the authorities have now tied them to what they describe as a rogue group engaged in citizen border patrols.
The three people arrested in the crime include the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a Washington State-based offshoot of the Minutemen movement, in which citizens roam the border looking for people crossing into the country illegally. Former members describe the group’s leader, Shawna Forde, 41, as having anti-immigrant sentiments that are extreme, at times frightening, even to people accustomed to hard-line views on border policing.
The authorities say that the three suspects were after money and drugs that they intended to use to finance vigilantism, and that members of the group may have been involved in at least one other home invasion, in California.
“There was an anticipation that there would be a considerable amount of cash at this location,” said Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, since, he said, Ms. Gonzalez’s husband, Raul J. Flores, had previously been involved in narcotics trafficking, an assertion the family denies.
A Pima County public defender representing Ms. Forde had no comment on the case. Nor did lawyers for the other suspects, Jason E. Bush, 34, and Albert R. Gaxiola, 42. All three remain in custody, charged with first-degree murder, assault and burglary.
Merrill Metzger, who worked for the group for six months just as it was getting started in 2007, said Ms. Forde had often traveled from Washington to Arizona with weapons. In March, while stopping over at his home in Redding, Calif., she presented a plan for the group to undertake, Mr. Metzger, her half-brother, said in a telephone interview.
“She was sitting here talking about how she was going to start an underground militia and rob drug dealers,” he said.
Mr. Metzger quit the group, alarmed, he said, by a number of things, including Ms. Forde’s demand for extreme loyalty, right down to the choice of cuisine.
“I had to take an oath, and part of the oath was that I couldn’t eat Mexican food,” he said. “That’s when red flags went up all over for me. That seemed like prejudice.”
Another former member, Chuck Stonex, a retired independent contractor, said Ms. Forde had talked about buying a ranch near Arivaca and building a compound. He said that in October, he took an excursion with her into the desert north of here, where, wearing camouflage and carrying handguns and rifles, they searched for illegal immigrants.
“It’s just like hunting,” Mr. Stonex said, describing the tracking skills the group used. “If you’re going out hunting deer, you want to scout around and get an idea what their pattern is, what trails they use.”
Mr. Stonex said he treated one of the suspects, Mr. Bush, for a flesh wound the day of the attack on Ms. Gonzalez’s family. Ms. Gonzalez had presumably shot Mr. Bush in warding off the attackers, but, Mr. Stonex said, the wound did not raise his suspicions, because, he said, Ms. Forde offered what seemed a plausible explanation: “They’d been jumped by border bandits.”
“They were very relaxed, having casual, normal chitchat,” he recalled.
Small numbers of Americans have always viewed border patrolling as a patriotic duty, but the most recent incarnation — the Minutemen movement, which takes its name from citizen militias formed during the Revolutionary War — gained steam in 2005, when hundreds of volunteers flocked to border locations.
Their patrols initially drew praise from some political leaders, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, but also raised concerns that the activities were thin veils for racism and xenophobia. Over time, the movement has also suffered from infighting, with some groups, like Ms. Forde’s, advocating increasingly confrontational tactics while others have simply monitored the border and reported illegal crossings to the authorities.
Since the killings here, members of some better-known groups involved with the movement have scrambled to disassociate themselves from Minutemen American Defense. Others had begun doing so well beforehand. The 750-member San Diego Minutemen, for instance, started warning people on its Web site in January to avoid Ms. Forde.
According to Ms. Gonzalez’s 911 call, the killers arrived shortly after midnight on May 30, dressed in uniforms resembling those of law enforcement personnel. They told the family that they were looking for a fugitive. Actually, the authorities say, the three suspects believed that Ms. Gonzalez’s husband, Mr. Flores, 29, was holding both drugs and money at their remote home.
Sheriff Dupnik has said there is ample drug activity between here and the border. The suggestion has angered the residents of Arivaca, a town of retirees, artists and working people about 50 miles south of Tucson. “This is a good town,” said Fern Loveall, 76. “It’s a good place to live, and it’s a good place to raise kids. What they’re saying about it isn’t true.”
Members of Mr. Flores’s family also denied that he had had any connection to the drug trade.
“He was a good guy,” said Gilbert Mungaray, his 80-year-old grandfather. “I know what happened, but I can’t imagine why.”
The family’s house was silent this week. An American flag hung on the porch, and three pink roses adorned the front door. Down a dirt road, at the local community center, a picture of Brisenia, the slain daughter of Mr. Flores and Ms. Gonzalez, had been placed in a frame with a small black ribbon affixed to it.
For the regulars at La Gitana Cantina, a friendly establishment with a mixed clientele of Anglos and Mexican-Americans, emotions have ranged from abject sorrow to rage.
“I’ve had people come into the bar and just put their heads in their hands, and all the sudden they’ve got tears pouring down their face,” said Karen Lippert, a bartender. She added that while Mr. Gaxiola was a local, the two other suspects were not.
“This is not us guys,” she said. “It’s the not the way us guys operate.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/27arizona.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Ariz. killings highlight risk of fringe activists
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
The Associated Press
June 18, 2009
PHOENIX (AP) — 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 accused 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.
"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 the shooting claims but have not made any arrests, police said. An investigation into the rape allegations was closed for insufficient evidence.
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 Alamagordo, 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.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hVv6UW5cymH_CW_JeEakxCg3CjwwD98U26MO4
The Associated Press
June 18, 2009
PHOENIX (AP) — 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 accused 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.
"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 the shooting claims but have not made any arrests, police said. An investigation into the rape allegations was closed for insufficient evidence.
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 Alamagordo, 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.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hVv6UW5cymH_CW_JeEakxCg3CjwwD98U26MO4
Friday, June 19, 2009
2 Accused In Ariz. Killings Had Anti-Immigrant Ties
by Ted Robbins
National Public Radio
All Things Considered
June 17, 2009
Two of the three people charged with killing a Hispanic man and his daughter in Arizona had ties to a group that strongly opposes illegal immigration.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says the motive behind the killings was robbery — and he believes the money was to fund the suspects' anti-immigration activity.
Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter were shot in the head May 30 after a group of people dressed in camouflage entered their home in the small southern Arizona town of Arivaca. The girl was apparently shot because she was a witness. Her mother, whose name is not being released, was shot in the leg.
The woman was on the phone with a 911 operator when the attackers returned. She had a pistol and fired at the attackers. She wounded one man, but the group got away. Then late last week, Dupnik announced the three arrests and discussed the motive.
"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," Dupnik said.
One of the three suspects lived in the area. But the other two, Shawna Forde and Jason Bush, are leaders of an anti-illegal-immigrant group in Washington state called Minutemen American Defense. Its Web site says it secures the U.S. border from human and drug trafficking.
Three years ago, Forde appeared on a local PBS TV program in Yakima, Wash. "I know the Minutemen and many other organizations will not stop," Forde said. "We will start at a local level and work our way up. We will not stop until we get the results that we need to have."
The two largest Minuteman organizations — the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and the Minuteman Project — said Forde and Bush are not associated with them.
However, Stephen Eichler, executive director of the Southern California-based Minuteman Project, said that Forde wrote articles that were posted on the Minuteman Project Web site. They've been removed. Eichler said he and Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist are horrified by the Arizona killings and by some of the people their movement has attracted.
"There's a lot of racists getting into movements because there are a lot of groups that feel threatened today which are very right wing, very conservative. And they feel threatened that our nation is moving in a different direction than it has in, say, the past 30 or 40 years," Eichler said. "So, instead of being reasonable about that, they become hostile."
Late Tuesday, a sheriff's captain said more arrests may be made in the Arizona case.
In addition, Bush has been charged with killing a homeless Hispanic man in Washington state 12 years ago and is a suspect in at least one other home invasion.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105526083
National Public Radio
All Things Considered
June 17, 2009
Two of the three people charged with killing a Hispanic man and his daughter in Arizona had ties to a group that strongly opposes illegal immigration.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says the motive behind the killings was robbery — and he believes the money was to fund the suspects' anti-immigration activity.
Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter were shot in the head May 30 after a group of people dressed in camouflage entered their home in the small southern Arizona town of Arivaca. The girl was apparently shot because she was a witness. Her mother, whose name is not being released, was shot in the leg.
The woman was on the phone with a 911 operator when the attackers returned. She had a pistol and fired at the attackers. She wounded one man, but the group got away. Then late last week, Dupnik announced the three arrests and discussed the motive.
"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," Dupnik said.
One of the three suspects lived in the area. But the other two, Shawna Forde and Jason Bush, are leaders of an anti-illegal-immigrant group in Washington state called Minutemen American Defense. Its Web site says it secures the U.S. border from human and drug trafficking.
Three years ago, Forde appeared on a local PBS TV program in Yakima, Wash. "I know the Minutemen and many other organizations will not stop," Forde said. "We will start at a local level and work our way up. We will not stop until we get the results that we need to have."
The two largest Minuteman organizations — the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and the Minuteman Project — said Forde and Bush are not associated with them.
However, Stephen Eichler, executive director of the Southern California-based Minuteman Project, said that Forde wrote articles that were posted on the Minuteman Project Web site. They've been removed. Eichler said he and Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist are horrified by the Arizona killings and by some of the people their movement has attracted.
"There's a lot of racists getting into movements because there are a lot of groups that feel threatened today which are very right wing, very conservative. And they feel threatened that our nation is moving in a different direction than it has in, say, the past 30 or 40 years," Eichler said. "So, instead of being reasonable about that, they become hostile."
Late Tuesday, a sheriff's captain said more arrests may be made in the Arizona case.
In addition, Bush has been charged with killing a homeless Hispanic man in Washington state 12 years ago and is a suspect in at least one other home invasion.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105526083
Monday, June 1, 2009
Survivor: I pretended to be dead
KOMO News - Seattle, Washington
by KOMO Staff & News Services
SEATTLE -- Investigators in Arizona have released a tape of the 911 call made during the deadly home invasion robbery that claimed the lives of a man and his 9-year-old girl.
Shawna Forde of Everett, Wash. and Jason Bush, who is wanted on a murder in Wenatchee, Wash., are two of the three charged in the killings. Albert Gaxiola of Arizona is the third accused in the shooting deaths of 29-year-old Raul Flores and his daughter, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores, at their home in Arivaca, Ariz., a town 10 miles north of the Mexican border.
Brisenia Flores' mother, Gina Flores, was also home at the time when two men and a woman posing as police officers forced their way into the home in the middle of the night on May 30. Gina Flores was also shot, but she survived and called 911 when the trio left the house for several moments.
Flores: They shot me and I pretended like I was dead. My daughter was crying. They shot her, too.
Operator: Are they still there, the people who, that shot them?
Flores: They're coming back in! They're coming back in! (Gun shots are heard in the background.)
Gina Flores said when the intruders returned, she fought back with a handgun her husband kept inside the house. Detectives believe Gina Flores' decision may have saved her life.
Flores: I was asleep and I can't even move. I've been shot.
Operator: OK, where were you shot?
Flores: I think I was shot in the leg. I'm not sure, ma'am. I'm numb. It hurts.
Operator: Are you armed?
Flores: Yeah.
Flores: They shot my husband, and they shot my daughter and they shot me! OK, oh, my God! I can't believe this is happening!
Operator: Where in the house are you?
Flores: I'm in the kitchen.
Operator: Are you with your husband and your daughter?
Flores: No, I don't even want to look at them.
Forde, Bush and Gaxiola have all been charged with two counts of first-degree murder two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges in Pima County, Ariz.
Investigators believe the killings were premeditated by thieves looking for drugs and money.
They allege Forde masterminded the home invasion robbery, which Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described as "evil" and "heinous."
"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," Dupnik said.
Forde is the executive director of the Minutemen American Defense, an anti-immigration group. The group's Web site, which was taken down after Forde's arrest, said Forde had been living recently in Arizona. It also named Bush, who goes by the nickname "Gunny," as the group's operations director.
Forde was once associated with the better known and larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
The Minutemen American Defense Web site has been replaced by a statement attributed to officers of Forde's group. The message disassociates the group from Forde and Bush.
"MAD is not responsible for the independent actions or the private agenda by Shawna Forde and her cohorts that is not a part of MAD's normal operating procedures," the message read. "Shawna acted totally on her own person agenda and has caused a lot of pain embarrassment and humiliation to the total Minutemen movement and fellow members of MAD."
Bush has also been charged in the 1997 stabbing death of Hector Lopez Partida, a homeless man, in Chelan County, Wash.
An informant told Wenatchee police that Bush bragged about killing "a Mexican" behind a store and that Bush had ties to white supremacist groups, according to court documents. Prosecutors said Bush was linked to the death through DNA evidence.
http://www.komonews.com/news/48296962.html
by KOMO Staff & News Services
SEATTLE -- Investigators in Arizona have released a tape of the 911 call made during the deadly home invasion robbery that claimed the lives of a man and his 9-year-old girl.
Shawna Forde of Everett, Wash. and Jason Bush, who is wanted on a murder in Wenatchee, Wash., are two of the three charged in the killings. Albert Gaxiola of Arizona is the third accused in the shooting deaths of 29-year-old Raul Flores and his daughter, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores, at their home in Arivaca, Ariz., a town 10 miles north of the Mexican border.
Brisenia Flores' mother, Gina Flores, was also home at the time when two men and a woman posing as police officers forced their way into the home in the middle of the night on May 30. Gina Flores was also shot, but she survived and called 911 when the trio left the house for several moments.
Flores: They shot me and I pretended like I was dead. My daughter was crying. They shot her, too.
Operator: Are they still there, the people who, that shot them?
Flores: They're coming back in! They're coming back in! (Gun shots are heard in the background.)
Gina Flores said when the intruders returned, she fought back with a handgun her husband kept inside the house. Detectives believe Gina Flores' decision may have saved her life.
Flores: I was asleep and I can't even move. I've been shot.
Operator: OK, where were you shot?
Flores: I think I was shot in the leg. I'm not sure, ma'am. I'm numb. It hurts.
Operator: Are you armed?
Flores: Yeah.
Flores: They shot my husband, and they shot my daughter and they shot me! OK, oh, my God! I can't believe this is happening!
Operator: Where in the house are you?
Flores: I'm in the kitchen.
Operator: Are you with your husband and your daughter?
Flores: No, I don't even want to look at them.
Forde, Bush and Gaxiola have all been charged with two counts of first-degree murder two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges in Pima County, Ariz.
Investigators believe the killings were premeditated by thieves looking for drugs and money.
They allege Forde masterminded the home invasion robbery, which Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described as "evil" and "heinous."
"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," Dupnik said.
Forde is the executive director of the Minutemen American Defense, an anti-immigration group. The group's Web site, which was taken down after Forde's arrest, said Forde had been living recently in Arizona. It also named Bush, who goes by the nickname "Gunny," as the group's operations director.
Forde was once associated with the better known and larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
The Minutemen American Defense Web site has been replaced by a statement attributed to officers of Forde's group. The message disassociates the group from Forde and Bush.
"MAD is not responsible for the independent actions or the private agenda by Shawna Forde and her cohorts that is not a part of MAD's normal operating procedures," the message read. "Shawna acted totally on her own person agenda and has caused a lot of pain embarrassment and humiliation to the total Minutemen movement and fellow members of MAD."
Bush has also been charged in the 1997 stabbing death of Hector Lopez Partida, a homeless man, in Chelan County, Wash.
An informant told Wenatchee police that Bush bragged about killing "a Mexican" behind a store and that Bush had ties to white supremacist groups, according to court documents. Prosecutors said Bush was linked to the death through DNA evidence.
http://www.komonews.com/news/48296962.html
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