El Paso Walmart shooting suspect pleads guilty to 90 federal hate crime and firearm charges
Posted on AllSides February 8th, 2023
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Patrick Crusius, the Texas man who allegedly shot and killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019, pleaded guilty to 90 hate crime and firearm charges in federal court on Wednesday. The guilty plea comes after federal prosecutors notified the court last month that they would not pursue capital punishment in the case. Crusius, 24, drove from his home in Dallas to the border city of El Paso and opened fire at a Walmart on Aug. 3, 2019, in what prosecutors described as a racist attack. He...