Pima Country Grand Jury indicts Shawna Forde with multiple counts – Death Penalty possible

Shawna Forde, 41, Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, and Jason Eugene Bush, 34, have been indicted by a Pima County Arizona on two counts each of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, as well as burglary, aggravated assault and robbery charges in the home invasion and murder of Raul and Bresenia Flores, and the attempted murder of the mother, Gina Marie Gonzalez.

The arraignment is scheduled for June 29 in Pima County Superior Court, Tucson Arizona.

Rick Unklesbay, chief trial counsel for the Pima County Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors have until 60 days after the arraignment to announce if they intend to seek the death penalty. Other than that, the DA declined further comment on the case.

Forde’s family members have said that Forde told her brother and her mother earlier this year that she planned to start attacking drug traffickers on the Arizona-Mexico border and robbing them. Forde, a Washington state resident, was allegedly going to use the proceeds to fund a group called Minutemen American Defense, an anti-illegal immigration and drug trafficking organization.

The shooter in the gang, Jason Eugene Bush, is scheduled to appear in Pima County Superior Court this afternoon for an extradition hearing.

Bush, another member of the Minutemen American Defense, was charged June 12 in the 1997 stabbing death of a sleeping, homeless Hispanic man in Wenatchee, Wash.

Whoa Clyde! Hold on here! An extradition hearing to face a charge of second degree murder in another state while under indictment for multiple counts of first degree murder in Arizona? Surely they jest!

But then as an afterthought, perhaps a jury in Washington is more likely to convict than some of the “Patriot” juries Arizona has seen in recent months. Such as the one that released Nicholas Corbett and the vigilante Barnett.

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1. Jury finds convicted murderer Shawna Forde “Death Penalty Eligible”
2. Death Penalty for Minuteman Shawna Forde
3. Trial of Minuteman Shawna Forde – Verdict – GUILTY on all counts
4. Arivaca Minuteman Murders – Two down One to go – Jason Bush received Death Penalty
5. Gaxiola escapes the death penalty for murdering 9 year old Brisenia Flores & father Raul