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Excellent. Justice is Served. White Supremacists who shot up a WalMart and murdered 23 people gets multiple life sentences. This is Federal Court only - state charges haven't been tried yet.
Shooter who targeted Latinos in Texas Walmart gets 90 life sentences, AP report
Shooter who targeted Latinos in Texas Walmart gets 90 life sentences, AP reports
By Justine McDaniel
Updated July 7, 2023 at 1:19 p.m. EDT|Published July 7, 2023 at 12:57 p.m. EDT
Patrick Crusius, the Texas gunman who killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, appears in federal court on Oct. 10, 2019. (Briana Sanchez/The El Paso Times/AP/Pool)
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The self-described white nationalist who killed 23 people at a Texas Walmart in a 2019 attack targeting Latinos was given 90 consecutive life sentences by a federal judge Friday, the Associated Press reported, after two days of emotional courtroom statements from victims and their families.
Patrick Crusius, 24, was sentenced in an El Paso courthouse on federal hate crime charges, to which he pleaded guilty in February. He did not speak at the three-day hearing and did not show a reaction as the sentence was read, the AP reported.
Crusius killed 23 people and injured 22 others in the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting in El Paso, in which he targeted Hispanic people at a Walmart near the U.S.-Mexico border. Authorities later called the attack domestic terrorism, and Attorney General Merrick Garland denounced “hate-fueled violence” in announcing Crusius’s plea deal earlier this year.