What happened? Simple enough. Shawna Forde and two others [allegedly] invaded a home of a Hispanic family and started killing. They killed a nine year old child and her father.

Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

HOMICIDAL ARIZONA NAZI HOME INVASION TARGETS MEXICAN FAMILY – father and 9 year old daughter slain, mother survives by shooting one of the nazis in his leg, 3 nazis in police custody

Who?

Accused ringleader Shawna Forde, Jason Eugene Bush and Arivaca resident Albert Robert Gaxiola were arrested Friday in connection with the home invasion in which Raul Flores, 29, and his daughter Brisenia, 9, were killed. Forde, 41, who has lived primarily in Everett, Wash., was the executive director of Minutemen American Defense, and she had named Bush the "operations director" for the group's border-watch activities along the Arizona-Mexico border

Arizona Star: 911 call in deadly home invasion released (with audio)

Why?

Accused ringleader Shawna Forde told her family in recent months that she had begun recruiting members of the Aryan Nations and that she planned to begin robbing drug-cartel leaders, her brother Merrill Metzger said Monday in a telephone interview from Redding, Calif. "She was talking about starting a revolution against the United States government," he said.

Crooks and Liars: Some 'neighborhood watch': Forde's Minuteman spinoff outfit was about 'starting a revolution against the government'

I did not listen to the 911 call. I could not. Crooks and Liars has some text of the call and some details:

They told us that somebody had, um, escaped jail or something and they wanted to come in and look at my house or something. And they just shot my husband. And they shot my daughter and they shot me." "... Oh my God, I can't believe they killed my family." She explains that the killers walked up cold-bloodedly to her daughter, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores, as she cowered and cried, and shot her two or three times anyway.

Crooks and Liars: 'Oh my God, I can't believe they killed my family': Victim of Minuteman gang, on 911 call, pleads for help amid gunfire

Who is Shawna Forde and what is her connection to Republican hatemongers?

Firedoglake tells about the connection with Republican candidates and Forde:

On June 30, Jim Gilchrist, one of America’s top opponents of Illegal Alien Amnesty will highlight the 2007 Washington State Illegal Immigration Summit in Everett.The Summit should be the pinnacle Conservative event of 2007. snip In addition the event is co-hosted by Minutemen American Defense, a Washington state-wide American citizen defense coalition headed by Shawna Forde, a re-born Rock promoter from the days of the music world-shaking Seattle Rock explosion. Shawna will speak. Representatives (or the actual candidates) will appear from Presidential campaigns for TOM TANCREDO, DUNCAN HUNTER and FRED THOMPSON. Maybe someone should ask Tancredo, Hunter and Thompson what they think of the Minutemen now. Remember, Mike Huckabee proudly accepted Jim Gilchrist's endorsement. And Forde was Gilchrist's protege.

Minuteman Killer Co-Hosted Anti-Immigration Event in 2007 Featuring Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson

Think Progress has more:

So far, CNN’s Rick Sanchez has been one of the few mainstream journalists to question Forde’s connection to the larger movement against immigration. SANCHEZ: "The nation’s largest minuteman group has distanced itself from Forde we should say. And we’ve learned that within Minuteman circles she is considered a bit of a loose canon. But you do have to wonder: how did Shawna Forde–a supposed fringe element–turn up on PBS as a player in the anti-immigration movement?"

Think Progress

And Republicans complained about the Homeland Security Report. Republican demogoguery on immigration issues legitimzed hate. And a nine year old and her father died. Dr. Tiller died. Stephen Tyrone Johns died.

Limbaugh and others continue to spread their hate. Lou Dobbs, you helped also, as you profited from hate. People need to know the real face of hate: a 9 year old dying. How many more?