{"id":17119,"date":"2025-04-03T17:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-el-paso-gunman-faces-sentencing-the-hate-that-inspired-him-rises-again\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:09:26","slug":"as-el-paso-gunman-faces-sentencing-the-hate-that-inspired-him-rises-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-el-paso-gunman-faces-sentencing-the-hate-that-inspired-him-rises-again\/","title":{"rendered":"As El Paso Gunman Faces Sentencing, the Hate That Inspired Him Rises Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Five and a half years ago, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old with a documented history of mental illness, stopped at a Walmart in the border city of El Paso, heard everyone around him speaking in Spanish, and decided \u201cthe invasion\u201d that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/04\/us\/politics\/trump-mass-shootings.html\" title=\"\">then-President Donald J. Trump often spoke of<\/a> was underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Crusius\u2019s rampage on Aug. 3, 2019, took the lives of 23 people, both U.S. citizens and Mexican nationals who had crossed the border to do some shopping, becoming the deadliest attack on Hispanic civilians in American history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His attorney, Joe Spencer, said on Tuesday in an interview ahead of his client\u2019s sentencing hearing scheduled for April 21 for state charges that Mr. Trump\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/11\/business\/media\/el-paso-killer-conservative-media.html\" title=\"\">anti-immigration rhetoric<\/a> was to blame. The president\u2019s words, combined with \u201csevere mental illness,\u201d fueled Mr. Crusius\u2019s hate, the lawyer said in his office in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe thinks this is the invasion,\u201d said Mr. Spencer, who has represented the gunman since his arrest. He added, \u201cIn his mind, he\u2019s saying, \u2018I\u2019m getting a direct order from the president. I have to do something.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The ugly saga, which began in a fusillade of bullets and was then mired by legal setbacks and red tape, concludes this month just as the same anti-immigration rhetoric that may have inspired the Walmart gunman returns with Mr. Trump\u2019s second administration. The president is embarking on an aggressive campaign to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/alien-enemies-act-trump.html\" title=\"\">the word \u201cinvasion\u201d is now a legal pretext<\/a> for deportations and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/us\/politics\/trump-deportations-venezuelans-el-salvador.html\" title=\"\">foreign incarceration<\/a> with little to no due process, critics say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That has cast a pall over El Paso just when the families of the victims and survivors of the deadly shooting of 2019 must confront the crime again. Christopher Morales, 39, whose aunt was killed that day and whose mother and grandmother suffered severe injures, said Mr. Trump\u2019s influence will be on his mind when he attends the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI do believe that Donald Trump and all of the things that he was spreading had everything to do with him, the shooter, making his decision to come and shoot my family,\u201d Mr. Morales said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In 2019, as he was leaving the White House to visit El Paso in the wake of the shooting, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-el-paso-dayton-shootings.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Trump commented<\/a>, \u201cWhether it\u2019s white supremacy, whether it\u2019s any other kind of supremacy, whether it\u2019s antifa, whether it\u2019s any group of hate, I am very concerned about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jessica Garc\u00eda, who lost her husband in the massacre, said that she confronted Mr. Trump that day as he visited a hospital. \u201cI actually told Trump it was his fault,\u201d she said. \u201cI told him he put us on the map\u201d for the gunman to find.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet El Paso is divided, a mark of Mr. Trump\u2019s appeal to many Hispanics, even those directly affected by the 2019 carnage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Deborah Anchondo, who lost a brother that day, described herself as a conservative voter who supports Mr. Trump\u2019s strict immigration policies, part of a wave of Latino voters who helped propel him to victory. Under the Biden administration she witnessed surges of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/14\/us\/el-paso-migrants-title-42.html\" title=\"\">migrants that overwhelmed<\/a> the city, with dozens sleeping on the streets, bus stations and crossing through her property, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The gunman, she said, insisted in his manifesto that his motive \u201chas nothing to do with Trump.\u201d That was enough for her. (Mr. Spencer said his client\u2019s attempt to clear Mr. Trump of responsibility ahead of the shooting only proved he was aware of the president\u2019s rhetoric.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many in the city, current and past events feel inextricable. A local prosecutor announced in late March that he would not seek the death penalty after speaking with the families of the victims, a decision that rankled some. They wondered how Attorney General Pam Bondi could decide this week to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murdering one insurance executive, while the same fate did not await the man who killed 23 in their city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On federal charges, the gunman had previously been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Esgar Eulalio Reyes, a 44-year-old Army veteran, Mr. Crusius is a terrorist who deserved the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf he said that his intention was to come to a major metropolitan area, where there was a mass population of Hispanics, and his role was to exterminate them, I don\u2019t know any other definition of what a terrorist is,\u201d Mr. Reyes said. \u201cThey want to call somebody a terrorist because they go and graffiti a Tesla. Imagine that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was, in fact, the Department of Justice under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. that decided not to seek the death penalty. Federal prosecutors did not explain their decision in the one-page brief submitted in 2023, but Mr. Spencer said he believed it had to with his client\u2019s \u201csevere mental\u201d illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since he was young, his client has heard voices and felt presences that were not there. He was eventually diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a condition that caused him to have violent thoughts and hallucinations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mental illness and white supremacy proved to be an incendiary mix. The gunman became lost in racist, far-right corners of the internet that espoused the \u201cWhite Replacement\u201d theory, a conspiracy that maintains people of color are being imported to the country to destroy the power and prosperity of white people, Mr. Spencer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The gunman told police officers that he had driven more than 600 miles from the Dallas area to kill Latinos because \u201cthey were immigrating to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But, Mr. Spencer said, Mr. Crusius decided on his target, the Walmart in a popular commercial district, only after he heard people around him speaking Spanish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In El Paso, which long has been seen as an Ellis Island of the Southwest, a destination for migrants from all over the world, the past feels very present to many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ruby Montana, 43, a lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso\u2019s Chicano Studies Department, told hundreds of people gathered earlier this week to commemorate Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American civil rights leader, that the mass shooting was intertwined with Mr. Trump\u2019s aggressive policies toward illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWords can make people believe in the idea of the Hispanic invasion of Texas when the reality is that we didn\u2019t cross the border,\u201d Ms. Montana told the crowd. \u201cThe border crossed us,\u201d she said to angry cheers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Guillermo Glenn, 84, who attended the rally, recalled being at Walmart the day of the shooting and helping some of the wounded people into shopping carts to escape the bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTrump has said so many things,\u201d Mr. Glenn said. \u201cHe has expressed so much racism, and now it is even worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pain of the mass shooting is felt by Mr. Trump\u2019s detractors and supporters alike. In a car repair shop that Ms. Anchondo\u2019s family owns, she stopped this week to study a memorial of photographs dedicated to her brother, Andre Anchondo, and his wife, Jordan, who died protecting their infant from the bullets. Only their child, Paul, who was grazed by a bullet, survived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The case has been marred by legal machinations, dragging it out for families like Ms. Anchondo. The newly elected El Paso district attorney, James Montoya, became the fourth prosecutor to take over the case after years of legal fillings from all sides. Mr. Montoya, a Democrat, had campaigned on a promise to seek the death penalty, but he backtracked after he took office and spoke with families of the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Anchondo said it was the right decision. The moment a federal judge sentenced the gunman, who pleaded guilty to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/opa\/pr\/texas-man-pleads-guilty-90-federal-hate-crimes-and-firearms-violations-august-2019-mass\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">federal hate crime charges<\/a>, to 90 consecutive life sentences, she said, the \u201ccase was over.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy opinion is, I\u2019m glad it\u2019s over and done with,\u201d she said softly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Karla Andrea Romero, 29, a U.S. Air Force veteran who lost her mother, Gloria Irma Marquez, in the shooting, said emphatically that it was the wrong decision. She did not blame Mr. Trump. Racism has existed for centuries, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her anger is aimed at Mr. Montoya, the district attorney. She is trying to force a recall election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI wanted the case to go to trial,\u201d Ms. Romero said, adding, \u201cwe have to make a change locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The sentencing hearing for the state charges could also be a reminder that the nation should not forget what happened in El Paso, amid all the mass shootings that have come since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAmerica is tired. It\u2019s tired of all this nonsense. It\u2019s tired of Uvalde. It\u2019s tired of El Paso,\u201d Mr. Reyes said. \u201cThey think that time is going to go ahead and heal the wound, but this wound is not going to heal in this community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/03\/us\/el-paso-mass-shooting-trump.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five and a half years ago, Patrick 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