The El Paso Walmart Mass Shooter will spend the rest of his life in prison after he has been guilty of the worst domestic terror attack on Hispanics in the United States.
De Schutter, the 26-year-old Patrick Crusius, showed no regret when he was wearing an orange-white prison jumpsuit before the 409th district court Sam Medrano on Monday 21 April, who admitted to kill 23 people and to injure dozens more in a racially motivated mass shooting party on an El Paso Walmart.
The judge told the shooter that while spending the rest of his life in prison, his name and hatred will be forgotten.
“On 3 August 2019 you traveled to a city that you would have welcomed with open arms, but you brought hatred,” Medrano said. “Now, while you start spending your life in prison, you know that your mission has failed. You have not made this community weaker, you have made it stronger.”
On Monday, April 21, 2025, the police officers of El Paso will walk their K-9s around the EL Paso County courthouse, prior to a hearing from the court where the Mass Shooter van Walmart is expected to argue.
Medrano accepted his guilty plea and condemned the shooter to life in prison. The plea and the hearing of the conviction took place in a courtroom on the third floor of the courthouse of Enrique Moreno County in the center of El Paso. More than 150 people attended the hearing.
The shooter from Allen, Texas, argued guilty of one counting of capital murder of several people and 22 counts of serious abuse with a fatal weapon.
Gunman drove to El Paso to kill Hispanics
On a quiet Saturday morning on 3 August 2019, the shooter stepped almost 700 miles from all, Texas rode to El Paso in the Walmart, from his car and started shooting on innocent shoppers in the parking lot of the store. He went on with the store and grabbed nine people fatally in a bank in the store.
As he continued his massacre, he killed a nine in the aisles of the store. In total he fashed 23 people and he injured dozens.
He fled the store, but turned up in a trooper later in a Texas Department of Public Safety State. He admitted the law enforcement that he committed the massive shooting to stop what he claimed the invasion of Hispanics who entered the US, the massive shooting resulted in the death of us and Mexican citizens.
The attack included us and Mexican citizens. It was the deadliest attack on Hispanics in modern American history.
Aaron Martinez deals with criminal law system for the El Paso Times. It can be reached at [email protected] or on X/Twitter @Amartinezept.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: 2019 El Paso Walmart Shooter to spend life in prison, argues guilty
