Global Information2019 El Paso shooting information
| 2019 El Paso shooting | |||||
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 Surveillance camera screenshots showing Crusius at the Walmart entrance | |||||
| Location | 7101 Gateway West Blvd. El Paso, Texas, U.S. | ||||
| Coordinates | 31°46′38″N 106°23′03″W / 31.7771°N 106.3843°W | ||||
| Date | August 3, 2019 10:39 – 10:45 a.m. (MDT UTC−06:00) | ||||
| Target | Hispanics[1] | ||||
Attack type | Mass shooting, hate crime, mass murder, domestic terrorism, right-wing terrorism[2] | ||||
| Weapons | WASR-10 semi-automatic rifle[3] | ||||
| Deaths | 23[4] | ||||
| Injured | 22[5] | ||||
| Perpetrator | Patrick Wood Crusius | ||||
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| Verdict | Federal: Pleaded guilty | ||||
| Convictions | Federal convictions:
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| Charges | State charges: Capital murder (23 counts) | ||||
| Sentence | Federal: 90 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole | ||||
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On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, killed 23 people[n 1] and injured 22 others.[14][15] The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime.[16][17] The shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.[18][19]
Crusius surrendered and was arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting. He posted a manifesto with white nationalist and anti-immigrant themes on the imageboard 8chan shortly before the attack.[20] The manifesto cites the Christchurch mosque shootings earlier that year, and the far-right conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement, as inspiration for the attack. On February 8, 2023, following an announcement that the Department of Justice would not seek the death penalty, Crusius pleaded guilty to 90 federal murder and hate crime charges.[21][22] On July 7, 2023, Crusius was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences, but he is currently pending trial for state charges that would still potentially result in the death penalty under Texas state jurisdiction if found guilty.[23][24]
- ^ "Accused El Paso mass shooter charged with 90 counts of federal hate crimes". Reuters. February 6, 2020. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
- ^ Multiple sources:
- "Terror from the Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on November 11, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
- Wilbur, Del Quentin (August 11, 2019). "FBI struggles to confront right-wing terrorism". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 27, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
Indeed, the gunman who killed 22 people at a Walmart store in El Paso on Aug. 3 pushed the total number of victims slain in domestic right-wing terrorism since 2002 to 109.
- Friedman, Uri (August 4, 2019). "How Many Attacks Will It Take Until the White-Supremacist Threat Is Taken Seriously?". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on January 19, 2021. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
But in another sense, if U.S. authorities confirm that the document was written by the 21-year-old white male suspected of committing the atrocity, then there was plenty of time—numerous years in which violence by far-right, white-supremacist extremists has emerged as arguably the premier domestic-terrorist threat in the United States.
- ^ Borunda, Molly Smith, Aaron Montes and Daniel. "90 federal charges filed against El Paso Walmart mass shooting suspect". El Paso Times. Archived from the original on February 21, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "El Paso Shooting Victim Dies Months Later, Death Toll Now 23". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. April 26, 2020. Archived from the original on May 20, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
- ^ "Texas Man Pleads Guilty to 90 Federal Hate Crimes and Firearms Violations for August 2019 Mass Shooting at Walmart in El Paso, Texas". www.justice.gov. February 8, 2023. Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ a b c Eligon, John (August 7, 2019). "The El Paso Screed, and the Racist Doctrine Behind It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
The threat of the 'great replacement,' or the idea that white people will be replaced by people of color, was cited directly in the four-page screed written by the man arrested in the killing of 22 people in El Paso over the weekend [...] The shooting in the immigrant-rich town of El Paso on Saturday was among the deadliest attacks in the United States motivated by white extremism since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, according to the A.D.L.
- ^ a b Maxouris, Christina; et al. (August 5, 2019). "El Paso vigils bring together a city in mourning after mass shooting". CNN. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
- ^ Aguilera, Jasmine (August 3, 2020). "One Year After Mass Shooting, El Paso Residents Grapple With White Supremacy: 'It Was There the Whole Time'". Time.
The shooting, however, brought white supremacy to El Paso's doorstep, forcing the city to confront anti-Latino racism and white supremacy that has always existed in the U.S.
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Lawwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Death toll in El Paso shooting rises to 22 as investigators put together timeline of accused shooter's movements". CBS News. August 5, 2019. Archived from the original on February 8, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
- ^ Aguilar, Julián (August 5, 2019). "Death toll in El Paso shooting climbs to 22". The Texas Tribune. Archived from the original on February 4, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
- ^ Lin, Nina (August 5, 2019). "22 Dead, 24 Injured in El Paso Shooting: Texas Officials". WRC-TV/NBC News. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ "Texas Man Pleads Guilty to 90 Federal Hate Crimes and Firearms Violations for August 2019 Mass Shooting at Walmart in El Paso, Texas". www.justice.gov. February 8, 2023. Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
- ^ "Texas Walmart shooting: El Paso attack 'domestic terrorism'". BBC News. August 5, 2019. Archived from the original on August 4, 2019. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
- ^ Romero, Simon; Fernandez, Manny; Padilla, Mariel (August 3, 2019). "Day at a Shopping Center in Texas Turns Deadly". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 4, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
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Levinwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Texas Man Pleads Guilty to 90 Federal Hate Crimes and Firearms Violations for August 2019 Mass Shooting at Walmart in El Paso, Texas". www.justice.gov. February 8, 2023. Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ "DOJ won't seek death penalty for El Paso Walmart shooter". AP NEWS. January 17, 2023. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
- ^ "Texas man pleads guilty in racist 2019 Walmart attack". AP NEWS. February 8, 2023. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
- ^ "Shooter who killed 23 at Texas Walmart sentenced to 90 life terms". Singapore: The Straits Times. July 7, 2023. Archived from the original on July 8, 2023. Retrieved July 8, 2023.
- ^ "Texas gunman in Walmart shooting gets 90 consecutive life sentences and may still face death penalty". AP NEWS. July 7, 2023. Archived from the original on July 7, 2023. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
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