A federal judge on Friday sentenced a white supremacist to 90 consecutive life terms in prison for a 2019 shooting in which he killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at a Texas Walmart while targeting Hispanics, local media reported.
The sentencing by US District Judge David Guaderrama in El Paso adheres to a plea agreement from February in which shooter Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty to and agreed to 90 consecutive life sentences in order to avoid the federal death penalty.Crusius did not speak in court. His attorney Joe Spencer made a statement for him in which he said the shooter suffered from mental illness which drove him to carry out the shooting, according to the Texas Tribune newspaper.
"I want you dead," said Genesis Davila, who was 12 years old and present while her soccer coach was killed and her father was wounded. Thomas Hoffman, who lost his father, Alexander Hoffman, called the shooter an "evil parasite" on Wednesday and said, "You are nothing without your weapon," the Dallas Morning News reported.
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