Gilbert killings victim, suspect patrolled border, friend says

Written by azcentral.com Friday, 04 May 2012 05:42

J.T. Ready, the suspected gunman in a Gilbert shooting rampage, and one of the slain victims would conduct border patrols together looking for illegal immigrants, according to a person who knew both men and took part in the patrols.

Harry Hughes, a regional director of the National Socialist Movement, said Thursday that Ready and Jim "Jambob" Hiott had rescued him last month after he got stuck in the sand in a remote area near Yuma. The National Socialist Movement is a white-supremacist, neo-Nazi group.

"J.T. and Jim appeared to be friends. They had been together on other exercises, and we went out in the desert too," Hughes said in a phone interview Thursday. "He (Hiott) had been to my home a couple of times. He was a good man."

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