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AND Texas striker who killed 23 people in the 2019 attack, which was targeting Latin American customers at El Paso Walmart, should acknowledge guilt of killing charges, finally allowing the case to be approaching.
Patrick Crusius is expected, 26, on Monday to acknowledge the guilt of capital murder and receive a lifelong prison sentence without the possibility of probation for racist mass shooting near the border with American and Mexico on August 3, 2019, the El Paso James Montoya district, Democrat district, who was on offer.
Crusius was already sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in the Federal Court after recognizing guilt for hate crime and weapons charges in 2023. Federal prosecutors under the management of Biden also removed the death sentence from the table.
The attacker is expected to serve at the Texas State Prison. Crusius was initially arrested by local authorities and will be transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if sentenced to state charges, according to the Federal Prison Office.
Shooter El Paso Walmart gets 90 life punishment for an attack in which 23 was killed
The woman reflects on the picture while looking at a makeshift memorial at the site of a mass shooting in a trade complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, in El Pasou, Texas. (AP)
Crusius was 21 when the authorities say he drove more than 10 hours from his home in the suburban Dallas to El Paso and opened fire in Walmart.
Prosecutors said Crusius wore earrings to turn off the sound of the shooting when he started shooting a ak -style rifle in the store parking lot. He then moved into the store and continued to shoot, seduced customers at the bank near the entrance in which nine were killed, before shooting people who were on the area and in the passages.
As he left the store, he shot in a passing car, killing an older man and wounding his wife.
Crusius was detained a little later and confessed to the shooting officers.
In a post on the web board with messages ahead of the shooting, Crusius, who is White, said the massacre was “in response to the Latin American invasion of Texas.” He also claimed that the Hispanians would take over the government and the economy.
The ‘invasion’ language continues after the shooting of El Paso Walmart
In this photo on August 12, 2019, the bereaved is visited by an improvised memorial near Walmart, El Pas in Texas. (AP)
His posts on social media involved rhetoric on a national immigration debate. He expressed his support from President Donald Trump’s policies involved in immigration, including the president’s plan to build a wall on the southern border. The Republican president was in his first term at the time.
After the shooting, Crusius the officials said that he was targeting Mexicans.
The people who were killed in the shooting were moving from the age of 15 to grandparents. The victims included immigrants and Mexican nationals who crossed the US border on routine trips.
“Racism is something I always thought there was. Obviously it is,” said Jessica Coca Garcia, who sustained wounds in her legs, but recovered, she said in a speech across from the county prison, where Crusius took place a week after the shooting. Her husband was killed in an incident.
Lawyer Joe Spencer, who represents Crusius, described Crusius on Thursday as “an individual with a broken brain.” Spencer said Crusius was diagnosed with schizoafective disorder, which may include hallucinations, misconceptions and mood swings.
The monument in honor of Victims of mass shooting Walmart in 2019 was shown on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in El Pasou, Texas. (AP)
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Montoya said he offered an agreement on the recognition of guilt because the relatives of most victims were eager for conclusion, although he admitted that not all families had agreed. He said he supported the death penalty and believes that Crusius deserves it, but that the case may not have started the trial until 2028 that his office continued to persecute the death penalty.
When he assumed his duty in January, Montoya became the fourth district prosecutor who overseen the case in almost six years. One of his predecessors resigned in 2022 under pressure to treat the case. Montoya said the Pandemia of the Coid-19 also caused delays in the wrapper of the case.
Stephanie Melendez, whose father David Johnson died by protecting her wife and granddaughter, said that she initially wanted Crusius to receive a death sentence before she later just wanted the case to be finished as he continued to pull.
“I just wanted it to be over,” Melendez said. “I ended up living everything. I ended up on court. I finished with briefing that happened after it would last for hours and it was the same conversation over and over. We were ready for all that, because, honestly, it’s like I am experiencing the trauma again and again.”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
