Jeffrey Hall

Jeffery Russell Hall was the Southwestern States Regional Director
of the National Socialist Movement.
He traveled to the desert with his members of his group as armed civilians on border patrols, preventing illegal entry into the United States.
He lived with his wife and five children and was murdered by his ten-year-old
son.<ref name="cbs"/>
Political activity
A plumber by trade,
32-year-old Jeffery had been having difficulty finding work for three years,
because of the economic downturn in the construction industry. Blaming his problems on Jews and non-whites, he became a local leader in the Neo-Nazi movement.
In 2010 he ran for the Western Municipal Water District board as a white supremacist.<ref name="water"/>
Just 12 hours before Hall's death, a reporter from the New York Times was in Hall's home and spoke to the his son , and the 10-year-old showed off a leather belt bearing a silver insignia of the Nazi SS, which his father had given him.<ref name="uk"/>
Murder
Jeffery bragged that he was teaching eldest son Joseph to use night vision equipment and shoot a gun.<ref name="nyt" />
Eventually that same ten-year-old child would tell police how he got a .357 revolver from a shelf in the closet, pulled the hammer back, aimed the gun at his dad's ear while he was asleep on the couch, and shot him.<ref name="declare" />
Joseph admitted to police that he was tired of his dad hitting him and his mom.
His 26-year-old stepmother Krista also admitted Jeffery had been violent with her and the son, sometimes losing self-control and kicking his son in the back. He punished his children to varying extremes on a daily basis.
The police report said that the house was filthy dirty, with the floor littered with clothes, and the odor of urine. Many weapons were accessible to the children.<ref name="declare" />
The son was arrested and taken to juvenile hall. The other four children were taken into protective custody. Krista was later arrested and charged with criminal storage of firearms
and child neglect.<ref name="declare" />
Joann Patterson (Jeffery's mother and Joseph's grandmother) was given temporary custody of the other four children. On a 60 minutes interview, she stated that her grandson had been acting out by starting fires. She was not surprised that he killed his father, only that she expected it would not happen until her grandson was older.
Family history
Joseph Hall and his younger sister were born to
Jeffery Hall and his first wife Leticia Neal.
Neal later had twins by another father.
In 2003, the twins were hospitalized for failing to thrive,
and Child Protective Services removed Hall's two children.
Social workers reported that Neal had no electricity or gas,
maggots were on dishes, and the children were dirty, hungry and thirsty, and had bruises. Leticia Neal now lives in Spokane, Wash.<ref name="cbs"/>
Halls two children were temporarily placed with his mother Joann Patterson, because he was on probation for driving under the influence.
In 2004, Hall was granted full custody of his two children.
After divorcing Neal, Hall married Krista McCary, and had three more daughters.
At the time of his death, he had five children, ages 10, 9, 7, 3 years plus a 2-month-old infant.
Joseph was a volatile and violent child, who had been expelled from several schools
for attacking students and staff, once nearly choking a teacher with a
phone-cord.
His grandmother Joann Patterson said he had no understanding of cause and effect.
Joseph and his sisters were being educated at home by their parent under the guidance of River Springs Charter School.

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