On the night of May 30, 2009, nine-year-old Brisenia Ylianna Flores was killed during a violent home invasion in Arivaca, Arizona. Three people posing as law enforcement entered the Flores home while Brisenia slept on the living room couch with a new puppy. Her father, 29-year-old Raul Flores Jr., was shot and killed early in the attack and her mother, Gina Gonzalez, was shot and wounded. Brisenia awoke during the assault and was shot twice in the face at point-blank range by one of the intruders, Jason Eugene Bush.

Investigators tied the attack to Shawna Forde, leader of a vigilante group called Minutemen American Defense, and a third accomplice, Albert Gaxiola, who reportedly gave the group information about Raul Flores they believed linked him to drug trafficking. All three were arrested within two weeks. In 2011 Shawna Forde and Jason Bush were sentenced to death and Albert Gaxiola to life without parole for their roles in the murders.