Raul Flores
Brisenia Flores
Shawn Forde
August 13, 2009
Death Penalty Sought for 3 Tied to Border Group
ARIVACA, Ariz. (AP) - Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to seek the death penalty against the leader of an anti-illegal immigrant group and two others charged in an Arizona home invasion that left a 9-year-old girl and her father dead.
The trio are alleged to have dressed as law enforcement officers and forced their way into a home about 10 miles north of the Mexican border in rural Arivaca on May 30, wounding a woman and fatally shooting her husband and their daughter.
A notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Shawna Forde, Jason Eugene Bush and Albert Robert Gaxiola was filed Monday, Deputy Pima County attorney Kellie Johnson said.
Forde is the leader of the Minutemen American Defense border watch group. She's accused of planning the attack to help fund her anti-immigrant operations.
Prosecutors argued that the three committed the crime in a cold and calculated manner, that they did it for money and had previous convictions for serious offenses.
Each defendant is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, armed robbery and aggravated robbery. All three suspects have pleaded not guilty
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