Last month, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her parents were shot in their beds in Arivaca, Arizona by home invaders led by Shawna Forde, a member of the Minutemen, an anti-illegal immigration group, and representative for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Brisenia and her father, Raul Flores, were killed.
Forde, 41, and her accomplices, Jason Eugene Bush, 34,and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges, according to Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, Arizona.
Local police are categorizing this as a hate crime against Hispanic immigrants and reporting that Forde and her associates broke into the Flores home dressed as law enforcement officers looking for money and drugs with the intent to finance her border watch group. Their goal was to leave no witnesses behind.
Forde’s group’s stated mission was to gather video of drug smuggling and human trafficking by Mexican drug cartels, “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 says on the Web site.
Forde had been a member of the larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), which has chapters around the country. Members of that group said they had distanced themselves from her for her extreme views.
Dupnik says “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.”
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