Brisenia Flores

Jason Eugene "Gunny" Bush (born LaGrande, Oregon August 11, 1974 ) of Meadview, Arizona, was MAD's National Director of Operations.

Bush had previously been charged with the September 1997 execution-style killing of an Aryan Nation associate, Jonathan Bumstead, for supposedly committing the "crime" of "being a 'race-traitor'".

That same year, Bush was imprisoned for car theft and for possession of a firearm, which was unlawful because of Bush's earlier felony conviction.

He is suspected in two additional killings that occurred in 1997.

According to information provided to Washington state detectives, Bush is alleged to have shown up at the homes of acquaintances covered in blood and asked to be allowed to clean up, after he had "just finished taking care of some business."

Detectives sought to find links to unresolved cases.

Bush, who was Forde's second-in-command, had ties to Aryan Nations, a white supremacist organization.

After his release from prison in 2003, Bush moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, where he lived until 2007.

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.

After his arrest in the murders of Raul and Brisenia Flores, Bush was charged in June 2009 with the 1997 murder of Hector Lopez Partida in Wenatchee, Washington based on DNA evidence.

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.

Shawna Forde and her accomplices gained entry into the Flores home by claiming they were officials looking for fugitives.

The suspects had the expectation of finding money and drugs that could be sold to finance Forde's vigilante nativist group, Minutemen American Defense (MAD), which patrolled Arizona's border with Mexico.

When they found no drugs, the intruders took inexpensive jewelry and fatally shot 29-year-old Raul Flores Jr. and his daughter, nine-year-old Brisenia Ylianna Flores.

Gina Marie Gonzalez, the 31-year-old wife of Raul Flores and the mother of Brisenia, was in the home during the attack and was shot three times.

She survived when she pretended to be dead.

After the assailants left the home, Gonzalez called 9-1-1 and armed herself with her husband's handgun.

While Gonzalez was on the phone, the assailants re-entered the home, and Gonzalez exchanged fire with the attackers, wounding Bush in the leg.

The killers then fled.

Gonzalez identified two men and a white woman as the attackers.

She identified Bush as the one who had murdered her daughter and her husband.

The day after the murders, Bush's leg was treated by MAD member Chuck Stonex.

Stonex later become a witness for the prosecution at trial.

An early exchange within the 911 call was recorded as follows:

"Gonzalez: They shot me and I pretended like I was dead. My daughter was crying. They shot her, too.

Operator: Are they still there, the people who, that shot them?

Gonzalez: They're coming back in!

They're coming back in!

(Gunfire.)"

Brisenia was a third-grade student at the Sopori Elementary School in Amado, Arizona at the time of her death.

Another of the Flores's daughters, a 12-year-old, was at her grandmother's home in Sahuarita during the attack.

Arriving at a death sentence for Forde was difficult, according to juror Angie Thomas.

A picture of Brisenia presented during the trial was a significant factor in reaching the decision: "A little girl, with bright red fingernails; she's wearing a white T-shirt and turquoise-colored pajama bottoms. She's on a love seat. It's a perfect, innocent picture until you realize that half of her face has been blown off."

Gonzalez testified that her daughter was shot point-blank as the girl pleaded for her life.

Forde, Bush, and Albert Gaxiola were all convicted of the murders.

Forde and Bush were sentenced to death, while Gaxiola was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole plus 54 years.

In April 2011, Bush was sentenced to death, and in May 2011, received another 78 years for other crimes.