Witness links Forde to alleged gunman in Arivaca killings
Former Minutemen American Defense group member Chuck Stonex told jurors Thursday he clearly remembers one of the comments Shawna Forde made to him as he tended to Jason Bush’s gunshot wound the evening of May 30, 2009.
“She told me, ‘You should have seen how scary he looked last night with his face all blacked out,’ ” Stonex said, referring to Bush.
Stonex was called to the stand by prosecutors who are trying Forde on first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Arivaca residents Raul Junior Flores, 29, and his daughter Brisenia, 9.
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On May 30, 2009, Stonex expected to see Forde at a Minutemen barbecue in Hereford, but instead received a phone call at 8 a.m. telling him that one of her guys, “Gunny,” had been shot by border jumpers and needed medical aid. After being provided a number of reasons why they couldn’t go to the hospital, Stonex said he agreed to bring supplies to them in Arivaca.
Stonex went to Arivaca with Laine Lawless, a woman he knew hoped to interview Forde about her organization. They met Forde in Arivaca and followed her to a small house a few blocks away, Stonex said. She was driving a teal van.
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