Federal prosecutors declined Tuesday to seek the death penalty for the alleged Walmart shooter who killed 23 shoppers in an El Paso branch of the store in 2019.
The decision is consistent with the Department of Justice’s practice of not pursuing capital punishment in federal cases since President Joe Biden took office, according to local reports.
Patrick Crusius is accused of driving 10 hours from Allen, Texas and casing the busy Walmart to make sure it was filled with Hispanic people before gunning down 23 shoppers with an AK-47 and injuring 22 others on Aug. 3, 2019. “The United States of America hereby notifies the Court and Defendant Patrick Wood Crusius that the Government will not seek the death penalty in the instant case,” stated the one-sentence filing, according toSurveillance video from inside the store captured a gun-wielding Crusius entering the El Paso story on a busy Saturday, prosecutors said.El Paso Times via APas well as murder charges for his actions and the case is scheduled to go before a judge in January next year.
The shooting came during a busy back-to-school shopping day at the store — a popular destination for residents of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, just across the US border from El Paso.
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