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90 life sentences for Texas Walmart shooter

Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso.

By Associated Press and The El Paso Times

July 7, 2023

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El Paso Walmart shooting suspect Patrick Crusius pleads not guilty during his arraignment in El Paso, Texas, Oct. 10, 2019. Patrick Crusius, the Texas gunman who killed 23 people in the racist attack is returning to federal court for sentencing on Wednesday, July 5. Crusius is facing multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
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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. Nearly four years after a white gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso in a racist attack that targeted Hispanic shoppers, relatives of the victims are packing a courtroom near the U.S.-Mexico border this week to see Patrick Crusius punished for one of the nation's worst mass shootings.
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Dean and Hilda Reckard, son and daughter-in-law of Margie Reckard, who died in the Walmart mass shooting, exit the federal court at the end of the second day of the sentencing hearing for perpetrator Patrick Crusius in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, July 6.
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Dean Reckard, son of Margie Reckard, who died in the Walmart mass shooting, gets emotional while talking to the media at the end of the second day of the sentencing hearing for perpetrator Patrick Crusius at the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, July 6.
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Relatives of victims of the El Paso Walmart mass shooting arrive to federal court in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, July 6.
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Amaris Vega, whose aunt Teresa Sanchez was killed and her mother and grandmother were injured in the Walmart mass shooting, talks to the media outside the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, July 6.
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Christopher Morales, whose aunt Teresa Sanchez was killed and his mother and grandmother were injured in the Walmart mass shooting, leaves the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, July 6.
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Francisco Rodriguez, left, wearing a T-shirt with an image of his son Javier Rodriguez, who was killed in the Walmart mass shooting leaves the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, July 6.
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Federal prosecutor Ian Martinez Hanna holds a Victim Impact Statement documents binder while walking outside court for a lunch break on the second day of the sentence hearing of mass shooter Patrick Crusius in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, July 6.
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Nicolasa Velásquez, center right, and Linda Duarte, center left, widow and daughter of El Paso Walmart shooting victim Juan de Dios Velásquez leave the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Friday, July 7.
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Hilda Reckard, daughter-in-law of El Paso Walmart shooting victim Margie Reckard, holds a picture of her relative outside the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Friday, July 7.
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Mario Perez, who was wounded during the El Paso Walmart mass shooting, speaks to the media outside the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Friday, July 7.
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Joe Spencer, left, defense lawyer of mass shooter Patrick Crusius, speaks to the media as his partner Mark Stevens listens, outside the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Friday, July 7.
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Assistant United States Attorney Ian Martinez Hanna, lead prosecutor in the case against mass shooter Patrick Crusius, speaks with the media outside the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Friday, July 7.

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