White supremacist to spend rest of life in prison for 2019 Walmart mass shooting

The white supremacist who fatally shot 23 people at an El Paso Walmart will remain behind bars for the rest of his life after being sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences.

Patrick Crusius, 24, was sentenced Friday morning to life in prison on each of 90 federal charges he pleaded guilty to earlier this year in connection with the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting that killed 23 people and injured dozens more at an East El Paso Walmart.

Residents from El Paso, Juárez and Germany were killed in the Bordreland massacre.

The life sentences, which will be served consecutively, were handed down by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Guaderrama, ending a three-day emotion-filled sentencing hearing that began Wednesday, July 5, at the Albert Armendariz Sr. Federal Courthouse in Downtown El Paso.

More than 50 people sat in the courtroom Friday morning, while more sat in an overflow room to watch the gunman sentenced on monitors showing the proceeding.

Read more: El Paso Times