Murders of Raul and Brisenia Flores | |
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Location | Arivaca, Arizona, U.S. |
Date | 30 May 2009 5 a.m. (UTC-7) |
Attack type | Armed robbery Home invasion Premeditated murder |
Weapons | Firearm |
Deaths | 2 |
Injured | 2 (including one attacker) |
Perpetrators | Jason Eugene Bush Shawna Forde Albert Gaxiola |
On May 30, 2009, 29-year-old Raul Flores Jr. and his daughter, nine-year-old Brisenia Ylianna Flores, were murdered during a home invasion in Arivaca, Arizona. The perpetrators were Shawna Forde, Jason Eugene Bush and Albert Gaxiola, all members of Forde's vigilante nativist group, Minutemen American Defense (MAD). Gina Gonzalez, the victims' wife and mother, was wounded but survived the attack after exchanging gunfire with the intruders, wounding Bush.
In 2011, all three assailants were convicted of murder. Forde and Bush were sentenced to death, while Gaxiola was sentenced to life in prison without parole.