2019 El Paso shooting
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 and injured 22 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime. The shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.
| 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 | 31.7771°N 106.3843°W | ||||
| Date | August 3, 2019 10:39 – 10:45 a.m. (MDT UTC−06:00) | ||||
| Target | Hispanics | ||||
Attack type | Mass shooting, hate crime, mass murder, domestic terrorism, right-wing terrorism | ||||
| Weapons | WASR-10 semi-automatic rifle | ||||
| Deaths | 23 | ||||
| Injured | 22 | ||||
| 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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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. 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. 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.