motivated. my female co-defendant had problems with her roommate. he had stolen some money from her and had called up a few of her friends, me being one of them and went over to the intimidate the guy. the intention was to have three skinheads in boots on, white power clothing just looking mean and one is carrying a baseball bat and one is carrying a shotgun, the other a knife. i mean that s what were you carrying. i was carrying the shotgun. that s intimidating. but it didn t stop at intimidation. within minutes one of the skinheads had beaten the man to death with the baseball bat. he was probably dead after the first hit. the first hit was to his head and just it was just nasty, vicious, bloody, brutal. while gaines admits he was a party to the crime, he claims it was one of his co-defendants who actually killed the victim. he and his lawyer have been fighting to get the charges reduced for years now. if you re convicted of first
without ever interacting with another inmate. so it has a very ominous feel when you walk through the special management unit and this is the path that i took when i went to meet shawn gaines. 29-year-old shawn gaines had spent most of the last six years in the special management unit. awaiting trial on a first degree murder charge that could land him on death row. i lived here longer than i ever lived in one spot in my entire life even growing up as a kid so it s just, you know i have yet to call it home, but it is what it is. gaines may not have wanted to call it home, but his security threat ranking dictated it. he was segregated because he was once a major player in a violent arizona skinhead movement. i was the notorious leader of that skinhead group.
so with all of that hype, i was expecting shawn gaines to be a very intimidating character, but when i first met him, he wasn t. he looked a little bit more like a benign, pudgy teddy bear, and he was nice. i ve taken up drawing. i can t quite say i m an artist but i like to draw a lot and three times a year i draw a large stack of cards, and i donate them to the children s hospital. but gaines didn t become a leader in the skinheads by being nice. i was power hungry. i got caught up in the hype of telling a bunch of other grown-ass men what to do. all the girls flocked to that scene. it s a nonstop party and it s like you can do no wrong. you talk a bunch of [ bleep ]. beat people up. you cause hate and discontent. that s how i made my rise to power in the skinhead movement. and when he took off his shirt, he had some of the most intense nazi skinhead, white
arizona skinhead movement. i was the notorious leader of that skinhead group. my lifestyle was full of hate and violence. so with all of that hype, i was expecting shawn gaines to be a very intimidating character, but when i first met him, he wasn t. he looked a little bit more like a benign pudgy teddy bear and he was nice. i ve taken up drawing. i can t quite say i m an artist but i like to draw a lot and three times a year i draw a large stack of cards and donate them to a children s hospital. but gaines didn t become a leader in the skinheads by being nice. i was power hungry. i got caught up in the hype of telling other grown ass men what to do. all the girls flocked to that scene. it s a nonstop party and it s like you can do no wrong. you talk a bunch of [ bleep ]. beat people up. cause discontent. that s how i made my rise to
first political tattoo i earned was my white pride across my shoulder blades. i got that for smashing a guy and beat him up pretty bad and you can get a plain swastika or a black swastika or what is referred to as a blood swastika which is about as high a level of tattoo as you can get which is what s on my back. what do you have to do to get that. shed the blood of another race. the murder that landed gaines in the maricopa county jail, however, was not racially motivated. my female co-defendant had problems with her roommate. he had stolen some money from her and had called up a few of her friends, me being one of them and went over to the intimidate the guy. the intention was to have three skinheads in boots on, white power clothing just looking mean and one is carrying a baseball bat and one is carrying a shotgun, the other a knife. i mean that s