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groundloop

(12,774 posts) Mon Apr 21, 2025, 01:28 PM Monday

Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at El Paso Walmart pleads guilty to murder

Source: The Guardian

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas – one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history – pleaded guilty on Monday to capital murder in a state district court.

Patrick Crusius was automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole for the massacre near the US-Mexico border. The change of plea comes after local prosecutors took the death penalty off the table.

The people who were killed ranged in age from a 15-year-old high school athlete to elderly grandparents. They included immigrants, a retired city bus driver, a teacher, tradesmen including a former iron worker, and several Mexican nationals who had crossed the US border on routine shopping trips.

Crusius has acknowledged he targeted Hispanics on 3 August 2019, when he opened fire in a Walmart in the Texas border city that was crowded with weekend shoppers from the US and Mexico.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/el-paso-walmart-shooter-pleads-guilty

I honestly don't even remember this particular shooting, there have been so damned many it's impossible to keep track of them all. But hey, at least Bubba' can keep his guns.

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Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at El Paso Walmart pleads guilty to murder (Original Post) groundloop Monday OP

I think this was the horror wherein he walked to the real of the store carrying a semi-automatic rifle. John1956PA Monday #1

Just when you'd think Texas' putrid, squalid love of the death penalty would come in handy. Aristus Monday #2

John1956PA

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1. I think this was the horror wherein he walked to the real of the store carrying a semi-automatic rifle.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Mon Apr 21, 2025, 03:11 PM

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He began shooting at the rear of the store. I think someone overpowered him when he ran out of ammo or while he was changing the magazine in the rifle.

You are correct. There have been so many of these horrors that it is difficult to remember them all.

Aristus

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2. Just when you'd think Texas' putrid, squalid love of the death penalty would come in handy.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Mon Apr 21, 2025, 03:48 PM

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Maybe if he had targeted white people instead of Hispanic people (yes, I know there are white Hispanics, but I'm betting most Texans don't.)

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