WaPo: “The self-described white nationalist who killed 23 people at a Texas Walmart in a 2019 attack targeting Latinos was given 90 consecutive life sentences by a federal judge Friday, after two days of emotional courtroom statements from victims and their families.
Patrick Crusius, 24, was sentenced in an El Paso courthouse on federal hate-crime charges, to which he pleaded guilty in February. He did not face the death penalty in this case, but could still in a Texas case that will go to trial as soon as next year.
Crusius killed 23 people and injured 22 others in the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso. Seeking to kill Hispanic people, he drove more than 650 miles from the Dallas area to carry out the massacre in a city near the U.S.-Mexico border. He posted a hate-filled manifesto online before the shooting that used white supremacist rhetoric to blame his actions on a “Hispanic invasion.”
It was among the deadliest attacks on Latinos in modern U.S. history, devastating dozens of families and deeply shaking communities in both the United States and Mexico.”