Texas grand jury indicts man accused of Walmart mass killing

This undated file picture provided by the FBI shows Patrick Crusius, who has been indicted by a grand jury for multiple killings at an El Paso shopping area on August 3. Picture: FBI via AP, File.

This undated file picture provided by the FBI shows Patrick Crusius, who has been indicted by a grand jury for multiple killings at an El Paso shopping area on August 3. Picture: FBI via AP, File.

Published Sep 12, 2019

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EL PASO - A Texas grand jury on Thursday indicted

a man accused of killing 22 people in an August shooting at

Walmart in El Paso, Texas, who had told authorities he was

targeting Mexicans, local media reported.

Patrick Crusius, 21, was indicted on capital murder charges

and will face the death penalty if he is convicted, El Paso

County District Attorney Jaime Esparza said on Thursday, the El

Paso Times reported.

Crusius is accused of driving from the Dallas area to El

Paso on August 3 and firing at shoppers with a rifle inside a

Walmart store, after which he surrendered to officers who

confronted him outside the store.

Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was

targeting “Mexicans,” according to an El Paso police affidavit

released days after the shooting.

The Texas killings were followed just 13 hours later by

another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, where a gunman in body

armor and a mask killed nine people in less than a minute and

wounded 27 others in the city’s downtown historic district

before he was shot dead by police.

The shootings reverberated across the political arena on

Sunday as Democratic presidential candidates called for stricter

gun laws and accused President Donald Trump of stoking racial

tensions. 

Reuters

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