• George Alan Kelly, 73, remains incarcerated on one count of murder in Arizona prison
• He shot and killed Gabriel Quen Butimea on his ranch on January 30.
• Strangers set up pages to help him raise $1 million bail, but they were taken down

GoFundMe has taken down multiple fundraising pages set up by strangers to help an elderly rancher charged with murder for shooting a Mexican immigrant on his Arizona ranch.

George Alan Kelly, 73, remains in custody pending his next court appearance in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

On January 30, he shot and killed 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen Buttimer after he illegally crossed over to his ranch in Kino Springs, near Nogales.

Kelly’s friends say he’s had trouble with illegal immigrants crossing over his land before. The elderly rancher has been put in jail – despite pleas to have his restraints lowered, he remains there.

Kelly’s court-appointed attorney, Brenna Larkin, has yet to attempt to secure his release or reduce his binding force. He told the judge that he needed to be released to help his wife take care of the livestock.

Strangers who sympathized with Kelly and saw him as a patriot who defended his land set up a GoFundMe page to assist in Kelly’s legal defense.

But the fundraising company has since removed those pages, citing a policy of not allowing fundraising to defend “violent crimes.”

“GoFundMe’s terms of service expressly prohibit campaigns that raise funds to cover the legal defense of persons duly charged with violent crimes. Fundraising campaigns for the legal defense of accused persons will be removed from the platform.

“Donors who contributed to the George Alan Kelly legal costs fundraising campaign have been fully refunded,” a spokesperson told DailyMail.com.

Instead, Kelly’s Give Send Go page was set up.

Its website is less prone to removing pages and was where countless donors donated to help Kenosha mob shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged with murder in 2021.

Kelly didn’t get a chance to explain why he shot Cembtimer or if he had or had seen him before. , Kelly’s attorneys have yet to invoke either.

His court-appointed attorney filed for a two-week delay, citing the sheer scale of the lawsuit as the reason she needed more time to prepare.

This means Kelly will have to stay in prison for at least two more weeks, waiting for a new attorney or waiting for her current attorney to file a claim.

Newly acquired video shows a frail 73-year-old boy being dragged into a courtroom on a pair of plastic prison slides.

He then asked the judge to lend him his reading glasses so he could read the charges against him.

“May I ask Your Highness a question? I can’t read without my reading glasses… It’s not a prescription for 1.5x magnification.

“I recognize everything I can hear, and now, thanks to you, I can recognize everything I can read.

He then asked for a definition of “poor” after a judge ruled that he was likely not “poor” enough to accept a public defender.

He had filed financial records showing his home and ranch as collateral. It is unknown how much they are worth.

“May I ask you a question?”

“You used the word poverty, but what is your definition of poverty?

“Somebody doesn’t make a certain amount of money — someone doesn’t make more than $20,000 a year.

“It’s more than accurate. Okay,” he said.

It is unclear whether it was accurate to say that he earned less than $25,000 a year, or that his documentation was incomplete.

At the end of the hearing, Kelly said:

“Just a minute,” replied Magistrate Emilio Velázquez.

After waiting until the judge was ready, Kelly pleaded: May I ask her to book her appointment for her audiovisual conference?

“I couldn’t speak to her or anyone.”

The judge said, “That’s something you’ll have to discuss with the detention facility downstairs. If your wife wants to get in touch with you, she can go to the sheriff’s office.

Kelly said slightly: “Thank you for giving me that instruction.

Kelly’s bond was set at $1 million. He previously pleaded with a judge to lower it, saying he needed to take care of his elderly wife and her livestock.

“She’s out there alone… no one to take care of the livestock or the ranch. And I’m not going anywhere. I can’t afford a million yen.”

“Can you think of some reduction?” he pleaded.

The judge refused, telling him his attorney would have to file the claim instead – which she didn’t do.