Breaking NewsA man indicted in an Arivaca double-murder case confessed the day he was arrested, but he will not be offered a plea deal, a Pima County Sheriff’s investigator said Tuesday. Jason Eugene “Gunny” Bush, 34, admitted to the May 30 murders of a man and his 9-year-old daughter shortly after he was arrested in Kingman on June 11, Lt. Michael O’Connor said. “He did say that the day we arrested him in Kingman,” O’Connor said. “He admitted to both murders.” Paperwork filed in the Pima County Attorney’s Office indicates Bush “has confessed locally to two murders, one of a 9-year-old child.” But O’Connor said Bush wasn’t offered a plea deal in exchange for his full confession. “He murdered a little girl,” O’Connor said. “I think that was hard on him.” Bush has a history of mental illness, according to Chelan County (Wash.) court paperwork, in which he claimed he’d been treated for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia since the mid-1980s. During a January 1998 stolen property case, Bush argued that his ill health would obstruct his ability to assist in his own defense. “For most of my life since the age of 11 or 12, I have had an experience of being outside myself, of watching another person take over my body,” Bush said in the court declaration. “I start going haywire and I don’t know what I’m doing or why. It’s like being in a daze. I don’t know why it happens and it scares me. It’s like someone else crawls under my skin. It is very frustrating.” Nevertheless, Bush entered a plea of not guilty June 30, along with Shawna Forde and Albert Robert Gaxiola, also being held in connection with the murders. Raul Flores Jr., 29, and his daughter Brisenia were shot in the head after several people dressed in camouflage and military gear invaded their Arivaca home. Flores’ wife was shot three times, but managed to fend off the intruders by firing back at them and wounding one, now identified as Bush by officials. Forde, the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a border protection group in which Bush was a high-ranking member, hatched the plot to rob and kill drug dealers and steal their money to fund the group’s border operations, officials said.
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The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of gvnews.com. Mike wrote on Jul 8, 2009 9:07 AM: " Hey Jason:What is going on here? You were arrested on June 11,for the may 30,murder of a man&his 9 yr.old daughter. What is the matter with you? Don't you have any kind of common decency at all? Or did you flush it down the commode along time ago? And your doctors indicate that you are bipolar&schizophrenic&that you are not responsible for your actions due to mental defect. Baloney!! That gives you absolutely positively no right at all to take a human life. If you had the presence of mind to take a human life then you have the presence of mind to assume complete responsibility for your actions. Those are my sentiments exactly. You say that you had this experience of being outside of yourself&having another person take over your body. You say it's like your'e going haywire&that you don't know what your'e doing&why. And you say it's like being in a daze. And you don't know why it happens&it scares you. You say that it's like someone else crawling under you skin&it frustrates you. The only thing that is very frustrating around here is you,Jason. You have been watching way too many Twilight Zone reruns, And now it's about time that you wake up&smell the coffee. And start getting with the program. You conjure this whole thing up about being schizophrentoc&being bipolar. The reason that you conjured this whole story is that you can readily conceal your own crimes. No ifs,ands,or buts about it. Don't you have any shame at all,Jason? Don't you have any kind of remorse at all for what you have done? Well if you don't,then you just better start getting some!! You have caused considerable pain&anguish to that man&his daughters immediate family. Or doesn't that seem to bother you? Well it should!! You taken away from that family a precious gift of life which was that man&his daughter. Or did a little voice inside of your head tell you to murder that man&his daughter? How many more voices are you going to hear before it's all over? You ought to have your own movie&call it a Voice From Beyond. In it you can be this delusional maniac who goes around killing people after hearing voices in your head. And you can make this lame excuse that the voices made you do it. How many more voices are you going to hear? And how many more people are you going to kill before it's all over? It's about time that you face the dire consequences of your actions. You committed a crime&it's about time that assume responsibility for it. You are no more mentally ill than a man on the moon. You are using this lame excuse so that you can further conceal your crime. You have the presence of mind to know that what you did was totally wrong. And you simply can't convince me that you don't either. You can take this insanity plea&flush it down the toilet for all it's worth. Because it simply is not worth a hill of beans. Your psychotic breakdown sham is simply not going to do you one single bit of good. You are still going to jail just the same. You pay full restitution for what you have done. You must pay the penalty most adherent to your particular crime. I am a Catholic man&I most certainly don't believe in the death penalty. I firmly believe in the preservation of human life. I believe that all life is precious in the eyes of of The Creator. All life is considered valuable even yours. It is up to God to wreak vengence on others¬ us, It is not up to us to make that distinction or determination. May God have mercy on your soul. Unintentional killing is not morally imputable. But one is not exonorated from grave offense if,without proportionate reasons,he has acted in a way that brings about someones death,even without the intention to do so. I sincerely hope that you get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law possible. " Dee wrote on Jul 8, 2009 5:08 PM: " Mike, You said this very well! I agree with you 100%! Gunny Bush murdered the little 9 year old girl. He deserves the fullest punishment of the law! Only he is accountable for his crimes as are Shawna Forde and the other person charged. " SSDD wrote on Jul 9, 2009 1:24 PM: " As usual, the GV News just skims over relevant information. We have this statement from the story: "According to the Sheriff’s Office, Flores, who was a known drug dealer". This begs several questions. If the Sheriff KNEW he was a drug dealer, why did the Sheriff not act on their information? How did the Sheriff KNOW he was a drug dealer? Why, given the fact that the GV News has taken it upon itself to blame this incident on the community of Arivaca, have they not asked the above questions to the Sheriff, and publish the responses? Isn't it the job of the Sheriff to stop the activities of KNOWN drug dealers? Isn't it the job of the press to ask these uncomfortable questions? The GV News consistently covers for the local corrupt and incompetent government officials. " Doug Leeks wrote on Jul 13, 2009 12:27 PM: " SSDD, you realy show just how much you care. Did you forget that it was also a nine year old girl! What part of the drugs did she have to do with that would make her subject to death by an evil assassin? He and they all deserve the fullest extent the law can give them...period. " Submit a Comment |
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