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AZ: Right-wing vigilantes kills a woman's child and her husband in their house in a border town

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New Border Fear: Violence by a Rogue Militia By JESSE McKINLEY and MALIA WOLLAN NY Times Published: June 26, 2009 ARIVACA, Ariz. ? ?Somebody just came in and shot my daughter and my husband!? the woman shouted to the 911 dispatcher. ?They?re coming back in! They?re coming back in!? Arivaca finds itself a town both terrified and angered. Multiple gunshots are then heard on a tape of the call. The woman, Gina Gonzalez, survived the attack after arming herself with her husband?s handgun, but both he and their 10-year-old daughter died. The killings, last month, have terrified this small town near the Mexican border, in part because the authorities have now tied them to what they describe as a rogue group engaged in citizen border patrols...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 27, 2009 (boomark / email).