Year-Long Manhunt Ends: Violent Neo-Nazi Caught for Parking Lot Attack on Jewish Victim
A neo-Nazi fugitive was arrested in Arizona for his role in a 2024 assault on a Jewish man in Nashville, charged with civil rights intimidation and assault. The incident, part of a broader campaign by the Goyim Defense League, prompted a strong police response to combat hate-driven violence.
On July 13, Louis Edward Dunn, a 43-year-old member of the antisemitic Goyim Defense League (GDL), was apprehended by El Mirage, Arizona, police, nearly a year after his role in a violent assault on a 20-year-old Jewish man from Clarksville in a downtown Nashville parking lot. Dunn, held in Maricopa County Jail, faces charges of civil rights intimidation and assault following a Davidson County grand jury indictment in June 2025.
The attack occurred on July 13, 2024, when Dunn and GDL associate Ryan Scott McCann, 30, targeted the victim in a 10th Avenue South parking lot. According to Metro Nashville police, the GDL members taunted and harassed the man before escalating to physical violence. Court records detail McCann attempting a spinning elbow strike to the victim’s neck and head. As the young man tried to flee, Dunn restrained him against a truck, enabling McCann to strike his neck and legs.
McCann was convicted in June 2025 on identical charges and faces up to 13 years in prison, awaiting sentencing. “Nashville and our police department will not let stand hatred that translates into criminal conduct,” said Metro Police Chief John Drake. “I am grateful to the team at the Specialized Investigations Division for their months of work to hold GDL members accountable.”
The assault coincided with a weeks-long GDL campaign in Nashville, where members brandished swastika flags, wore “Pro-White” shirts, and distributed antisemitic flyers in the Lower Broadway area. The Neo-Nazi group, labeled a hate network by the Southern Poverty Law Center, also disrupted a Metro Council meeting and targeted Jewish sites.
Posts on X condemned the violence, with one user stating, “GDL’s hate has no place in Nashville.” Dunn’s arrest follows other GDL members’ prosecutions, including David Aaron Bloyed for threatening Nashville’s District Attorney and Travis Keith Garland for an antisemitic stunt at a Jewish community center. Dunn awaits extradition to Tennessee, where the case underscores rising concerns over hate-driven violence amid 2024’s reported 1,200 antisemitic incidents nationwide.