Paul Jamrowski, father of Jordan Anchondo and father in-law of Andre Anchondo, who both died in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting, breaks down in tears while speaking to the media outside the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, July 5, 2023
A WHITE Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart store in 2019 is expected to learn his punishment tonight.
In the run-up to the sentencing, relatives of the victims berated Patrick Crusius for days over the shooting that targeted Hispanic shoppers on the US-Mexican border.
Mr Crusius looks set to receive multiple life terms in federal prison for committing one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country’s history.
However, he could still face the death penalty over a separate case in a Texas state court that has yet to go to trial.
The racist gunman pleaded guilty in February to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges after federal prosecutors took the death penalty off the table.
The sentencing was taking place not far from the El Paso Walmart where Mr Crusius opened fire.
The attack came after Mr Crusius ranted online, claiming that there was a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
Amaris Vega, whose aunt was among the victims, railed at Mr Crusius’s “pathetic, sorry manifesto” promising to rid Texas of Hispanics.
“But guess what? You didn’t. You failed,” Mr Vega told the killer on Thursday. “We are still here and we are not going anywhere. And for four years you have been stuck in a city full of Hispanics. So let that sink in.”
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