BREAKING: AP source: Justice Department weighing hate crime charges against Texas shooting suspect that would carry death penalty.
A man and woman injured when a gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping area were there to raise money for their 5-year-old son’s baseball team.that her daughter and son-in-law were near the front doors of the Walmart on Saturday morning when they were shot.
The police chief in El Paso is linking a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly before a shooting that killed 20 people to the suspect in custody. When asked whether the shooting was a hate crime, Allen said “it’s beginning to look more solidly like that is the case.”A Justice Department official says the federal government is treating the El Paso shooting that killed 20 people as a “domestic terrorist” case.
El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza told reporters that the state of Texas also plans to seek the death penalty.The Justice Department is seriously weighing federal hate crime charges against the El Paso shooting suspect that would carry the potential for a sentence of the death penalty. Dr. Stephen Flaherty said Sunday that a total of 11 victims were taken to Del Sol Medical Center. They ranged in age from 35 to 82 years old. More than two dozen people in all were injured in Saturday’s shooting, some of whom were treated elsewhere in the Texas border city.
El Paso County records Sunday showed that 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius was booked at the downtown jail in the Texas border city. There was no immediate indication that he had an attorney.
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