Suspect in Arizona Shooting Spree a White Supremacist Skinhead

[Cirque du So-What]

By Mark Potok on March 18, 2015 - 3:27 pm, Posted in Extremist Crime, Racist Skinheads

The man arrested in the aftermath of a shooting spree in Mesa, Ariz., today sports tattoos that identify him as a neo-Nazi. What’s more, a local retired detective says he is a longtime white supremacist skinhead associated with major racist groups.

Ryan Giroux, who allegedly murdered one person and wounded five others earlier today and was arrested after a frenzied manhunt, was released from prison in Arizona in 2013. According to prison records, he has convictions for attempt to commit aggravated assault, marijuana, theft, and second degree burglary. Records indicate that he was sentenced to a total of about 14 years in prison.

Retired Mesa Police Detective Matt Browning told Hatewatch that he knew Giroux from previous encounters, and that he was a member of Hammerskin Nation, a notoriously violent racist skinhead group, and an associate of the Aryan Brotherhood, a national prison gang with a long list of murders to its credit. “He’s a violent guy,” said Browning, who knew Giroux as a young skinhead in the 1990s and early 2000s. “I think his time in prison contributed to that.”

Giroux, 41, has been in and out of Arizona prisons since 1993, when he was arrested for burglary and marijuana possession. His most recent prison stint, for an attempt to commit aggravated assault, began in 2007 and ended in October 2013.

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http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/03/18/suspect-in-arizona-shooting-spree-a-white-supremacist-skinhead/

Captured alive, naturally. Do cops fear retribution if they kill one of them?

[bravenak]

1. Isolated incident.

Does not reflect on his demographic. Rightwing Nazi's are not dangerous, per se, they just SEEM dangerous cause the go on killing sprees. Not all rightwing nazi's!!!

[NutmegYankee]

5. Hey, the rightwing nazi movement only has killed about 100 million people or so.

According to FOX a News, that's not dangerous at all!

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. To the victims...

Ryan is proof that prisons should be rehab centers, not recruitment sites for gangs.

[Eleanors38]

13. I agree completely.

[pscot]

3. Giroux sounds like a career loser

This shouldn't require a long trial.

[Warpy]

4. I'm wondering how random the shootings were

because one of the survivors is a white woman.

But no, he managed to kill somebody, so this won't take long. Eyewitness accounts usually aren't worth much but those skinhead tats will be pretty clearly remembered.

My condolences to the victims and their families. I hope they lock this guy in a cage and weld the door shut.

[dbackjon]

6. One was a Hispanic Male

[Warpy]

9. Yes, I know, but not much information has been released on the others.

This is a "wait and see" story while the cops do their jobs piecing it together.

I'm just glad they got the bastard off the street. Good work, officers.

[n2doc]

14. Then he can join up with his fellow gang members in jail

I'm sure they are waiting for him to come back.

[KamaAina]

7. I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

[applegrove]

8. Right wing terrorist!

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. “He’s a violent guy. I think his time in prison contributed to that."

[NaturalHigh]

15. Yes, that's all too common.

Prison often just makes bad guys worse. That's just one reason why we should stop incarcerating people for non-violent drug offenses.

[uppityperson]

11. I am glad they caught him.

[Eleanors38]

12. If found guilty, he isn't long for this world.

[MohRokTah]

16. Domestic White Terrorist

This news story will now get no more play from the "Libbrul Media".