Dallas – A long -standing criminal case against a Texas gunman, who killed 23 people in a racist attack aimed at Hispanic buyers at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019.
Patrick Crusius (26) will be convicted on Monday to kill the capital, and the US-Mexico border is expected to be sentenced to life imprisonment without any possibility of going to parole for massacre. El Paso County District Attorney James Montoa said that last month he was giving a petition to Crusius and he would not face the death sentence on state charges.
Crusius has already been sentenced to 90 life imprisonment in the Federal Court after convincing crime and weapons charges in 2021. Under the administration of the Biden, federal prosecutors also took the death sentence out of the table.
Crusius is expected to serve its time in a state jail. A Federal Bureau of Jail spokesman said Crusius was first arrested by local authorities and would enter the Texas criminal judiciary custody if he was sentenced to state charges.
What to know about the deadly attack on August 3, 2019 and the consequences are here:
Crusius was 21 years of age when authorities say he drove to El Paso for more than 10 hours from Dallas’ house in the suburbs and fired at Walmart, which is popular with the buyers of Mexico and the United States
Prosecutors say that he was wearing earrings that mute the sound of gun battles when people started firing at Crusius parking.
He then went inside the store and fired an AK-style rifle, a corner of the shop near the entrance, where nine people were killed before the shooting in the checkout area and the people in the ice.
He was shot in a passing vehicle out of Walmart, killed a senior man and injured his wife.
Police said Crusius was arrested shortly after, and the officers were admitted to those who stopped him at a turn, police said.
Just before the genocide, on an online message board, a white, community-college dropout Crusius said that the shooting was “in response to Hispanic aggression in Texas.” He said the Hispanics are about to adopt the government and the economy.
On social media, he appeared on the country’s immigration debate, tweeted #boundthwall and posted Republican President Donald Trump’s rigid-line border policies, who was in his first term at that time.
After the shooting, Crusius told officers that he had targeted the Mexicans.
On Thursday, one of Crusius’s Attorney Joe Spencer described Crusius as a “breaking brain person”. Spencer said that Crucius was diagnosed with schizophical disorder, which could be characterized by hallucinations, confusion and mood.
The deceased were from 15-year-old high school athletes to grandparents. They include immigrants and Mexican citizens who crossed the US border during routine shopping travel.
They included Jordan Ankondo and Andre Ankondo, who were 2 months old children, killed while shopping with Paul, who survived. Authorities say Jordan Ankondo has protected the child from the gun battle when his husband gave them both IELD.
Gillarmo “Memo” Garcia and his wife Jessica Coca Garcia were funding their daughter’s football team when two of them were shot dead. He suffered his feet but he recovered. About nine months after the shooting, he died in his injury and the death toll was increased to 20.
A week after the shooting, Coca Garcia rose from her wheelchair to give a lecture on the road from the County Jail to which Crusius was held.
“Racism is a thing that I always wanted to think about that didn’t exist,” he said. “Of course, it does.”
Montoa said he decided to propose the agreement for the petition because most of the victims were interested in resolving the case. He admitted that all families did not agree.
A Democrat named Monta says he supports the death penalty and believes that Crusius deserves it, but if his office continues to search for the death penalty, the case cannot be tried until 2021.
When Montoa took over in January, he became the fourth district attorney to oversee the case for almost six years. One of his predecessors resigned in 2022 because of his case. He said the epidemic also caused a delay.
Stephanie Melandaz, whose father David Johnson died in IELD, said that he wanted to get Crusius the death sentence at first, but he wanted to finish it as soon as he pulled the case.
“I just wanted to finish it,” said Melandez. “I finished everything. I finished in the court for hours. I finished with the briefings that had happened after that and it was the same thing over and over again. We were just ready to do it all because it was really, it’s like repeatedly recover the trauma.”
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