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‘Racist’ Gunman Responsible For Targeted El Paso Walmart Shooting Sentenced To 90 Life Terms

<p>The <strong>Texas<&sol;strong> gunman &&num;8212&semi; who reportedly targeted Latinos when he killed 23 people inside a Walmart in a 2019 mass shooting &&num;8212&semi; has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Patrick Crusius<&sol;strong> allegedly <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;07&sol;us&sol;el-paso-walmart-shooter-sentencing-friday&sol;index&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">remained emotionless<&sol;a> as Senior U&period;S&period; District Judge David C&period; Guaderrama handed down the sentences on Friday&comma; per <em>CNN<&sol;em>&period; He received one life sentence for each of his 90 federal charges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;" data-uri&equals;"cms&period;cnn&period;com&sol;&lowbar;components&sol;paragraph&sol;instances&sol;paragraph&lowbar;385BE0C1-6477-C8B8-E379-3146BB1AEB25&commat;published" data-editable&equals;"text" data-component-name&equals;"paragraph" data-analytics-observe&equals;"off">El Paso Walmart Shooter Remains Emotionless As He Is Sentenced To 90 Life Terms<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p data-uri&equals;"cms&period;cnn&period;com&sol;&lowbar;components&sol;paragraph&sol;instances&sol;paragraph&lowbar;385BE0C1-6477-C8B8-E379-3146BB1AEB25&commat;published" data-editable&equals;"text" data-component-name&equals;"paragraph" data-analytics-observe&equals;"off">The 24-year-old&&num;8217&semi;s crime&comma; which occurred inside an El Paso Walmart on Aug&period; 3&comma; 2019&comma; remains one of the deadliest anti-Latino attacks in modern U&period;S&period; history&comma; the network reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"gnt&lowbar;ar&lowbar;b&lowbar;p">Residents from El Paso&comma; Juárez&comma; and Germany were killed in the massacre&comma; per the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;elpasotimes&period;com&sol;story&sol;news&sol;crime&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;07&sol;el-paso-walmart-shooting-sentencing-patrick-crusius-gunman-receives-90-life-sentences&sol;70390167007&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>El Paso Times<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri&equals;"cms&period;cnn&period;com&sol;&lowbar;components&sol;paragraph&sol;instances&sol;paragraph&lowbar;6B8163E1-7BE8-394C-0C07-2E142914728B&commat;published" data-editable&equals;"text" data-component-name&equals;"paragraph" data-analytics-observe&equals;"off">Prosecutors also accused Crusius of hate crimes and firearms offenses&period; He had <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;federal-prosecutors-death-penalty-racist-el-paso-walmart-massacre&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;13awf6n&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;OTc3ODA3NjQuMTY4ODc1OTM0MA&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4ODc1OTMzOS4xLjEuMTY4ODc1OTM2NS4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">pleaded guilty<&sol;a> to those charges in the massacre earlier this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri&equals;"cms&period;cnn&period;com&sol;&lowbar;components&sol;paragraph&sol;instances&sol;paragraph&lowbar;57420FD5-E238-CC93-ABD7-31982CE74501&commat;published" data-editable&equals;"text" data-component-name&equals;"paragraph" data-analytics-observe&equals;"off">Meanwhile&comma; Crusius&&num;8217&semi; defense attorney&comma; <strong>Joe Spencer<&sol;strong>&comma; told the court Crusius has taken responsibility for the harm he had caused and that his rampage was due to severe mental illness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri&equals;"cms&period;cnn&period;com&sol;&lowbar;components&sol;paragraph&sol;instances&sol;paragraph&lowbar;DA22922E-DAE0-4104-6FBD-317EA7097527&commat;published" data-editable&equals;"text" data-component-name&equals;"paragraph" data-analytics-observe&equals;"off">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Patrick will leave prison in a coffin&period; The only question is&comma; will it be on God’s time or man’s time&quest;” Spencer told the court during a 40-minute allocution just before sentencing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;federal-prosecutors-death-penalty-racist-el-paso-walmart-massacre&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;10azeav&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MTE5MTY0NDA3My4xNjg4Njc5MDI2&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4ODc1Njc1Ni41LjAuMTY4ODc1Njc1Ni4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Federal Prosecutors Won&&num;8217&semi;t Seek Death Penalty Against Man Charged With Racist El Paso Walmart Massacre<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1677067225201532933" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; federal prosecutor Ian Martinez Hanna shot those insinuations down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"gnt&lowbar;ar&lowbar;b&lowbar;p">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What happened was a cold&comma; calculated scheme targeting immigrants and Hispanics&comma;” Hanna said&comma; according to the <em>El Paso Times<&sol;em>&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A shooting spree that spared no one&period; It was not a crime of passion&period; It was not an accident&period; It was a calculated act that he planned&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Authorities say Crusius uploaded an online diatribe before the shooting&comma; stating&comma; &&num;8220&semi;This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He&&num;8217&semi;s also accused of driving to El Paso from the Dallas suburbs &&num;8212&semi; roughly 700 miles &&num;8212&semi; to carry out the massacre&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In January&comma; federal prosecutors said they would not pursue the death penalty against Crusius&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;federal-prosecutors-death-penalty-racist-el-paso-walmart-massacre&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;13awf6n&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;OTc3ODA3NjQuMTY4ODc1OTM0MA&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4ODc1OTMzOS4xLjEuMTY4ODc1OTM2NS4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;a> previously reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">One Of The Victim&&num;8217&semi;s Mother Lashes Out At Gunman After Sentencing&colon; &&num;8216&semi;We Will See You Again&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>According to the Times&comma; as court officers escorted Crusius out of the courtroom&comma; one of the victim&&num;8217&semi;s mothers threw words at the convicted gunman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We will be seeing you again&comma; you coward&period; We will see you again&comma;” shouted Margie Reckard&comma; mother of Dean Reckard&comma; who was killed in the shooting&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Friday&&num;8217&semi;s sentencing ends an emotional three-day sentencing hearing&comma; which began on Wednesday &lpar;Jul&period; 5&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">El Paso D&period;A&colon; Death Penalty Still On The Table For Walmart Shooter&&num;8217&semi;s State Murder Case<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; while his federal case has ended&comma; the death penalty is still reportedly on the table regarding his Texas capital murder trial&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>El Paso Times reports that El Paso County District Attorney Bill Hicks stated Thursday that his office intends to pursue such corporal punishment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The court has not set a date for the state trial&period; Hicks believes it will begin sometime in 2025&comma; according to the outlet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Crusius pleaded not guilty in response to the state charges filed against him&period; 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