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2019 El Paso shooting | |
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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 10:37 – 10:42 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 |
Motive | |
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]
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.
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.
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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.
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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