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The sentence will have to be served consecutively, with which he will spend the rest of his life in federal prison, although he could still face capital punishment.
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks has insisted that he will seek this conviction for Crusius, 24, in the state trial, the start date of which has not yet been set.
How was the sentence against Crisius
More than 50 people were in the courtroom this Friday, reported the local newspaper El Paso Times. The attacker, dressed in a blue prison suit, appeared handcuffed and handcuffed. He did not address the court before hearing the sentence, nor did he do so in previous days, when he was given the opportunity.
His defense attorney, Joe Spencer, spoke for the attacker this Friday in court. He said that Crusius suffers from a severe mental illness that causes him to hear voices and see things that don’t exist. He claimed that she was able to lead him to commit the attack.
After hearing the sentence, says the local media outlet KVIA, a relative of the victims yelled at him: “We’ll see you again, coward.”
The attack has been considered one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history.
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The events occurred on Saturday, August 3, 2019, when the armed subject arrived at the El Paso Walmart and fired his semi-automatic rifle at store customers. He had driven more than 600 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) from a Dallas suburb to reach the scene and commit the massacre, prosecutors said.
After committing the massacre, he fled the scene in his vehicle, but shortly thereafter surrendered to authorities from the Texas Department of Public Safety and confessed to the shooting. He later explained that he had chosen that store because it was close to the border with Mexico and was frequented by Hispanics.
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On his social networks he appeared as a young man obsessed with immigration and used to publish proclamations in favor of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies with hashtags like #buildthewall (build the wall).
In a last message before carrying out the attack, he assured in a manifesto published on the Internet that he was doing it “in response to the Hispanic invasion in Texas.” He assured that he was defending “his country from cultural and ethnic displacement as a consequence of the invasion.”
In February, the attacker pleaded guilty after reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office to avoid the death penalty in exchange for admitting the charges and waiving his right to appeal.
What the victims of the massacre told him
The sentencing hearing was the first time that the victims and their families had the opportunity to confront the perpetrator of the massacre.
“I want you dead,” said Génesis Dávila, who was 12 when Crusius carried out the attack that killed his soccer coach and wounded his father. “I hate you so much. Hell has a place for you,” he added, according to a report on local KVIA television.
“Look at me, coward. Look at the photo of my son,” Francisco Rodríguez, father of Javier Amir Rodríguez, the youngest victim of the attack, told him, according to the television station. “Because of you, he never got to graduate from high school. I take my son’s ashes with me everywhere I go.”
In addition to 23 dead, there were 22 wounded. Among the victims were immigrants and Mexican citizens who had come to buy at the hypermarket, as many of those who live in border communities tend to do.
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