Patrick Crusius was sentenced again to life imprisonment again without the possibility of probation for the state charges of the 2019 shooting at a Walmart store, in El Paso (EU) that left 23 dead and 22 injured, mostly Latin.
At the audience, Crusius, 26, declared himself guilty of the accusation made by the Prosecutor’s Office (Texas), which avoided the death penalty.
The massacre, which occurred on August 3, 2019, became the deadliest shooting directed against the Hispanic community so far.
Judge Sam Medrano told the defendant on Monday that “the community you tried to destroy has become a symbol of resilience, of love that exceeds hate, of humanity that resists before evil,” according to information cited by the newspaper El Paso Matters.
“This community will always remember those whose lives stole: their names, their stories, their achievements. Their light will never go out. While you, your name and your hate, they will be forgotten,” added the judge before the young man who remained silent and without any expression during the hearing.
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Crusius confessed after his arrest to have published a manifesto with anti -immigrant and white nationalism proclamations, and acknowledged that his attack had been addressed to Mexicans.
The shooting occurred in a Walmart store in the border city of El Paso they usually go to buy many Mexican citizens.
In today’s hearing, the defense lawyer of Crusius, Joe Spencer, said that although his client said in his manifesto that his opinions were prior to the then president (Donald Trump) and that the political figures were not responsible, he also explicitly declared that the attack was an answer to the Hispanic invasion of Texas, echoing the language used by the political figures ”, according to the information cited by the information cited by the information cited by the information. newspaper.
He added that in fact Patrick believed that he acted on the president’s line at that time.
Today’s conviction adds to that of 2023, when Crusius was sentenced in a federal court to 90 consecutive perpetual chains for that attack, after having declared guilty of 90 federal positions of murder and hate crimes, in exchange for which the US government did not ask for the death penalty.
For more than five years the local accusation had been stagnant in the Court of El Paso, which initially left the capital punishment.
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Last month, the County District Prosecutor of El Paso, Democrat James Montoya, had announced that he withdrew the penalty of the penalty in the case in exchange for being guilty.
Montoya today also referred to the anti -immigrant rhetoric and asked to focus on reminding the victims.
With EFE information
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