An Arizona newspaper is reporting that Jason Eugene Bush has confessed to being the gunman who killed two people during a May 30 raid on an Arivaca, Ariz. family’s home.
Bush admitted the killings on June 11 when he was arrested near Kingman, Ariz., the Green Valley News and Sun reported this afternoon.
The newspaper quoted Pima County sheriff’s Lt. Michael O’Connor as saying that Bush wasn’t offered a plea deal.
“He murdered a little girl,” the newspaper quoted O’Connor as saying “I think it was hard on him.”
Bush co-defendant in the killings is Shawna Forde, 41, of Everett, leader of Minutemen American Defense.
Forde, Bush, 34, and Albert Gaxiola, 42, all are jailed in Tucson on murder charges. Raul Flores, 29, and his daughter, Brisenia, 9, were killed when camouflage-wearing intruders took over the home while posing as law officers and then suddenly opened fire. The girl’s mother also was shot, but she managed to arm herself with a handgun and drive the attackers away after a gun battle.
Pima County, Ariz., officials have alleged that Forde orchestrated the raid in hopes of finding cash and drugs in Flores’ home. She allegedly planned on using the robbery to raise money for her group.
Forde was as suspect within hours of the killings after tipsters led investigators to Gaxiola’s home, according to previously released police reports.
Flores’ wife had described her attackers, including a woman who matched Forde’s description, and a tall, hulking man with his face painted black.
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