In the Fall of 1974 Aquash travelled to Los Angeles where AIM had opened an
office and had begun to receive financial and organizational support from
sympathizers in the movie and rock music industries, such as Marlon Brando and David Carradine.  When Durham followed in early October, Aquash became upset.  She phoned the St.Paul office and pleaded that a national leader come to Los Angeles to mediate between Durham and the local leaders.  She said she felt his presence was disruptive.  In the first week of October,Durham met with Paul Skyhorse at AIM Camp 13, in Box Canyon in Ventura County, north of Los Angeles.  Skyhorse,an Ojibwe from Minnesota, told Durham that he and Richard Mohawk, a Tuscarora from New York, were leaving soon for the AIM camp, Durham told several people that there were "plans to expose the racism of the sheriff's department," in Los Angeles, though he did not elaborate.

On the afternoon of October 10, after both Durham and Aquash had returned to St. Paul, Virginia de Luce, know at the AIM Camp as Blue Dove, informed both Skyhorse and Mohawk of a demonstration in Los Angles in support of Sarah Bad Heart Bull who was in jail in South Dakota following her Custer riot conviction.  Blue Dove drove the two AIM leaders to the demonstration, which turned out not to be much of an event.  There were very few Indians at the site, although a bevy of photographers showed up.  That same evening several people who had been staying at the AIM camp departed for a reported party at TV star David Carradine's house with Carradine's friend Lee War Lance.  Marvin Red Shirt,from Pine Ridge, his girlfriend Holly Broussard, the daughter of Louis Broussard, a rich businessman and ex-Navy Commander from Long Beach;Marcella McNoise, with a serious felony record from Seattle, and Roland Knox, who said he was from Alaska, left for Carradine's house in Broussard's car.

When they arrived at the house, no one was home.  Knox left in Broussard'scar, but the other four stayed, drinking until 10:PM.  Red Shirt, Broussard, and McNoise phone for a cab.  George Aird from the Red and White cab company arrived shortly thereafter, and began the drive back to Box Canyon.  Somewhere along the way, the meter in the cab was pulled out,stopping at $6.00, and Red Shirt took over driving.  Back at the AIM camp the car was driven through the chain  across the gate, and there at the camp cab driver George Aird was viciously murdered.  he was stabbed seventeen times, his hair was cutoff, and he was dragged by a rope, and stuffed into a well near one of the tipis.  Ventura County Police arrested Broussard and NcNoise that night with bloodstains all over their clothes.  The cab had been wiped down to eradicate fingerprints, but Red Shirt's fingerprint were discovered on Aird's body and on cab company papers found stuffed in an incinerator but not burned.

A week later, on October 17, Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk were arrested by FBI at the educational conference in Phoenix identified by photographs taken at the bogus Sarah Bad heart Bull demonstration.  The two AIM leaders were charged with the murder of Aird and held in the Ventura county jail with out bond.  The murder was reported in the Los Angeles news papers as a "ritual" and the AIM image in Southern California was seriously tarnished with imagery similar to stories of the Charles Manson murders that had taken place in the same area and in like manner.   Doug Durham reported to the AIM leadership in St Paul that AIM Camp 13, had seriously deteriorated, and that Skyhorse and Mohawk were probably guilty;he suggested that AIM disassociate itself from the crime.  AIM took Durham's advice.  Red Shirt,Broussard and McNoise were given signed immunity agreements from prosecutors in exchange for testimony against Skyhorse and Mohawk who languished in jail without benefit of AIM legal help.

Blood of the Land:The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement...Rex Weyler, pp.168-9

UPDATE: Richard Mohawk was arrested  on armed robbery charges in California.  First appeal in 1983, most recent appeal in 1994 resulted after ten years in prison in the reversal of the conviction due to government misconduct.  Verdell Thundershield's testimony in exchange for government favor, and the arresting officer who had identified him by the sweatshirt with hood he had been wearing, later reversed his testimony that he had not been wearing and had never seen his face.
Appeal 83-5207 Reversal dated 4-13-94