PATRICK CRUSIUS

The Texas man who allegedly shot and killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 pleaded guilty to 90 hate crime and firearm charges in federal court on Wednesday.

Sentencing is not scheduled until later this year, but the U.S. government had previously announced it wouldn't seek the death penalty.

The Justice Department is seeking life in prison for Patrick Crusius, 24, who fatally shot 23 people in an attack that authorities said targeted Mexicans.

Patrick Crusius is expected to make a guilty plea for the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. The plea would be the first conviction in a case lasting over three years.

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal charges accusing him of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart.

The man accused of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart plans to plead guilty to federal charges in the case.

The man accused of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart plans to plead guilty to federal charges in the case.

The alleged gunman is accused of targeting Mexicans during the 2019 massacre that left dozens wounded and killed 23 people.

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019.

El Paso County District Attorney Yvonne Rosales agreed to resign. She faced accusations of incompetence involving hundreds of cases and of slowing down the case against the suspected Walmart shooter.

A Texas prosecutor facing mounting criticism over the handling of the 2019 Walmart mass shooting in El Paso that killed 23 people has resigned.

The Biden administrating is putting forth seven new Justice Department and judicial nominations covering three U.S. attorney’s offices in Texas and other senior posts.

The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18 when authorities say they bought the weapons used in the attacks.

When police confronted the white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, he was the very poster boy for armed and dangerous.

A man who drew worldwide sympathy and support after his wife was killed in the 2019 mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart is being remembered as kind and thoughtful but haunted by the loss of the woman he loved.

Officials in the border city of El Paso dedicated a garden meant to bring healing two years after a gunman targeting Latinos opened fire at a Walmart, killing 23 people in an attack that stunned the U.S. and Mexico.

The Department of Homeland Security will watch social media posts to track narratives that could lead to unrest, violence and hate crimes

Patrick Crusius has been diagnosed with severe, lifelong neurological and mental disabilities and was treated with antipsychotic medication following his arrest moments after the massacre in El Paso, his attorneys wrote in a court filing. The court record also states Crusius was in special education for much of his schooling, but does not elaborate on his mental health. Crusius was arrested soon after the Aug. 3 shooting. Soon before the attack, he posted a racist screed online that railed against Hispanics coming to the U.S., according to prosecutors. Federal prosecutors are opposing the request and have said the Attorney General will decide whether to seek the death penalty.

EL PASO, Texas The man accused of killing 22 people at a Walmart in Texas is expected to be reindicted Thursday as he faces another murder charge in the mass shooting that targeted Mexicans, prosecutors said. Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas, is currently being held without bond on one count of capital murder of multiple people under Texas state law. Esparza said Crusius will also face more counts in relation to the dozens of people injured in the shooting. Were reindicting the defendant to include the additional death and to include all of those injured in the Walmart shooting in order to give the next DA all of their options, Esparza added. Crusius already faces the death penalty on a state capital murder charge to which he pleaded not guilty last year.

FILE PHOTO: El Paso Walmart mass shooter Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old male from Allen, Texas, accused of killing 22 and injuring 25, pleads not guilty during his arraignment, in El Paso, Texas, U.S. October 10, 2019. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERSEL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man pleaded not guilty to 90 federal hate crime charges on Wednesday after he was accused of deliberately targeting people of Mexican heritage in the shooting rampage that killed 22 people at a Walmart store in El Paso last year. Patrick Crusius, 21, entered the not guilty plea in an arraignment waiver document filed after his first appearance in federal court in El Paso, Texas. An arraignment waiver means the defendant is aware of the charges and is entering an initial plea of not guilty. Crusius faces a separate capital murder trial in state court on the Walmart shooting.

FILE PHOTO: El Paso Walmart mass shooter Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old male from Allen, Texas, accused of killing 22 and injuring 25, pleads not guilty during his arraignment, in El Paso, Texas, U.S. October 10, 2019. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERSEL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of deliberately targeting people of Mexican heritage in a shooting rampage that killed 22 at a Walmart store in El Paso last year made his first court appearance on Wednesday for new federal hate crime charges. Crusius court-appointed lawyers in the federal trial - David Lane and Rebecca Hudsmith - declined to comment after the hearing. He is accused of driving 11 hours to El Paso from his hometown of Allen, near Dallas, on Aug. 3 last year, and firing at shoppers with an AK-47 rifle inside the Walmart store. Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released days after the shooting.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of deliberately targeting people of Mexican heritage in a shooting rampage that killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart (WMT.N) store last year was charged on Thursday on 90 counts of federal hate crimes. Crusius was charged last year by state courts, where his capital murder trial is in its early stages. Bash said the El Paso shooting was an act of domestic terrorism and an attack against an entire ethnic group. Crusius is accused of driving 11 hours to El Paso from his hometown of Allen, near Dallas, on Aug. 3 last year and firing at shoppers with an AK-47 rifle inside the Walmart store. Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released days after the shooting.

FILE PHOTO: El Paso Walmart mass shooter Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old male from Allen, Texas, accused of killing 22 and injuring 25, pleads not guilty during his arraignment, in El Paso, Texas, U.S. October 10, 2019. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERSEL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of deliberately targeting people of Mexican heritage in a shooting rampage that killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store last year has been indicted on 90 counts of federal hate crimes, according to a court document filed on Thursday. The federal grand jury indictment charges Patrick Crusius, 21, with 22 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, 23 hate crimes involving an attempt to kill and 45 counts of discharging a firearm in relation to the hate crimesCrusius was charged in state court last year for the shooting and has pleaded not guilty. He is accused of driving 11 hours to El Paso from his hometown of Allen, near Dallas, on Aug. 3 last year and firing at shoppers with an AK-47 rifle inside the Walmart store. Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released days after the shooting.

FILE PHOTO: El Paso Walmart mass shooter Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old male from Allen, Texas, accused of killing 22 and injuring 25, pleads not guilty during his arraignment, in El Paso, Texas, U.S. October 10, 2019. Briana Sanchez/Pool via REUTERSAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of deliberately targeting Mexicans in a shooting spree that killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store last year will be charged later Thursday with hate crimes, a source with direct knowledge of the case said. Patrick Crusius, 21, the suspected shooter, is already facing a capital murder trial and has pled not guilty. He is accused of driving 11 hours to El Paso from his hometown of Allen, near Dallas, on Aug. 3 and firing at shoppers with an AK-47 rifle inside the Walmart store. Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released days after the shooting.

EL PASO, Texas - The family of a woman killed at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, is trying to stop the hatred against the Hispanic community by suing 8chan and the suspected shooter's family. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in El Paso district court by the children of Angelina Englisbee, one of the 22 people killed on August 3 after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso. The malice that was brought here from Dallas to El Paso. Christopher S. Ayres, an attorney representing the Crusius family, said they were saddened to be brought into the case, but continue committed to respect the court's processes. But he has been working to keep 8chan and its successor offline in the wake of the shooting in El Paso, Brennan said.

New details are out on the incarceration of the El Paso shooting suspect. EL PASO, Texas - The man accused of carrying out a killing spree at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, pleaded not guilty Thursday to capital murder charges. The 58-year-old El Paso resident used to consider herself an active, happy person. He had no apparent ties to the area, but according to the US Census Bureau, 83% of El Paso residents are Hispanic or Latino. CNN's Sara Weisfeldt reported from El Paso and CNN's Eliott McLaughlin wrote from Atlanta.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas man accused of deliberately targeting Mexicans in a shooting spree that killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart store pleaded not guilty on Thursday in his first court appearance. Patrick Crusius, 21, was indicted last month for capital murder and will face the death penalty if he is convicted, the El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza said. Its our job to make sure the story of Patrick Crusius is told.Another defense attorney, Joe Spencer, added that Mr. The back-to-back massacres sparked a political outcry, with El Paso native and Democratic Party presidential hopeful Beto ORourke demanding the mandatory confiscation of the assault-style rifles often used in mass shootings. Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released days after the shooting.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas man accused of deliberately targeting Mexicans in a shooting spree at an El Paso Walmart store that killed 22 people is due in court on Thursday for his arraignment. Patrick Crusius, 21, was indicted last month for capital murder and will face the death penalty if he is convicted, the El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza said. The back-to-back massacres sparked a political outcry, with El Paso native and Democratic Party presidential hopeful Beto ORourke demanding the mandatory confiscation of the assault-style rifles often used in mass shootings. The El Paso shooting prompted powerful Texas Republicans including Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Crusius confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released days after the shooting.

The 21-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, pleaded not guilty Thursday during a brief initial hearing. Police have said Patrick Crusius of Dallas confessed to the August 3 mass shooting and that he targeted Mexicans. Around 80 members of the public and 30 members of the press underwent security screening before filing into the courtroom on the top floor of the El Paso County Courthouse to witness his first appearance. Suspect Patrick Crusius reads his indictment in court Thursday before he pleads not guilty. Crusius is being held without bond in an El Paso jail.

New details are out on the incarceration of the El Paso shooting suspect. (CNN) - The man accused of opening fire in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, killing 22 people and wounding several others, has been indicted on a capital murder charge, the El Paso County District Attorney's Office said following the grand jury's Thursday decision. District Attorney Jaime Esparza intends to seek the death penalty in the Aug. 3 massacre, according to a statement. Capital murder is the highest charge in Texas, Esparza's office said, and is punishable by death or life in prison without parole. The 21-year-old is being held at the El Paso County Detention Facility without bond.

New details are out on the incarceration of the El Paso shooting suspect. EL PASO, Texas - The suspect in the deadly shooting in El Paso, Texas, has been placed on suicide watch based on the recommendation of medical staff at the jail, the El Paso Times reported, citing an official with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. Patrick Crusius, 21, of Allen, Texas, is being held without bond on capital murder charges in the shooting that left 22 people dead and more than a dozen wounded. While in custody, Crusius has been "cold" in his interactions with police, police officials told CNN. The four-page document, titled "The Inconvenient Truth," was published on the online message board 8chan about 20 minutes before the shooting, authorities said.

Mr. Crusius surrendered to police shortly after his reign of terror, leaving many baffled as to why he didnt take his own life like many mass shootings suspects. A manifesto apparently posted on social media by Mr. Crusius outlined his intentions and his racist and anti-immigration views, said authorities. She believes parents are the root of the hatred that leads to mass shootings. But in a society where the thought appears to be only Muslims can be terrorists, White domestic terrorism gets softened to mental illness.No one is safe. After the most recent tragedies, the possibility of making mass shootings, which authorities describe as shootings with four or more victims, capital crimes were raised.

People lined up hours before the memorial and packed the stadium in downtown El Paso, which holds about 8,000. Hate will never overcome who we are," El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said. El Paso is just across the border from the Mexican city of Juarez and some of those shot at Walmart were Mexicans who had crossed to El Paso to shop. But CBS El Paso affiliate KDBC-TV reports some in the community don't want that to ever happen. "We never imagined something like this would happen here in El Paso."

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Beto ORouke on Saturday joined a march in the Texas border city of El Paso to condemn last weeks mass shooting there, telling the crowd that President Donald Trump was partly responsible for the hatred that inspired it. He confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released on Friday. Before the rampage, the suspect posted a manifesto online that was rife with anti-immigrant hatred, law enforcement agencies said. ORouke, a former U.S. congressman who represented a district that includes El Paso, joined more than 100 people in the march, which began at a park and ended at a courthouse, across the street from the jail where Crusius is held. Obviously it does.Since the shooting, and a second massacre on Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, Trump has signaled support for expanding background checks for firearms purchases.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The suspected gunman accused of killing 22 people in a shooting rampage at Walmart in El Paso, Texas last weekend confessed while surrendering and told police he was targeting Mexicans, according to an El Paso police affidavit released on Friday . The affidavit said Crusius waived his right to remain silent after he was taken into custody and told detectives he entered the Walmart with an AK47 and multiple magazines. Authorities said Crusius drove 11 hours from his hometown of Allen, Tex., near Dallas, to perpetrate a massacre in the predominantly Hispanic city of El Paso. Authorities say the mass shooting is being investigated as a hate crime and act of domestic terrorism. [L2N2550AB]Nearly half of all Americans believe another mass shooting in the United States is highly likely soon, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll released on Friday.

(Reuters) - The suspected gunman accused of killing 22 people in a shooting rampage at Walmart in El Paso, Texas over the weekend told police he was targeting Mexicans, the Washington Post reported on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Shooting suspect Patrick Crusius, charged with capital murder for a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, is seen in this police photo released from El Paso, Texas, U.S., August 5, 2019. Courtesy of El Paso Police Department/Handout via REUTERS. Police took Crusius into custody after they responded to reports of a shooting and saw a car stopped at an intersection near the El Paso store. The massacre in the predominantly Hispanic city of El Paso is being investigated as a hate crime and act of domestic terrorism, authorities said.

(CNN) - The man accused of killing 22 people at an El Paso Walmart last weekend claimed he targeted the city, in part, because he wanted distance between the target and his hometown on the other side of Texas, three sources with knowledge of the investigation said. Patrick Crusius, the detained suspect in Saturday's shooting, told investigators this was one reason why he chose El Paso, the sources said. El Paso police officials would not comment about the sources' accounts. Crusius, 21, is accused of driving about 11 hours from his home in Allen, Texas, to the Walmart in El Paso, in far western Texas abutting the Mexican border. About 83% of El Paso's residents are Hispanic or Latino, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Authorities said the 21-year-old man accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart confessed after surrendering and said he had been targeting Mexicans. He said Crusius later waived his Miranda Rights and agreed to speak with detectives, telling them he was targeting Mexicans during his attack. Investigators said Crusius drove 10 hours from Allen to El Paso. Crusius is being held on capital murder charges, the El Paso County District Attorney's Office said. Since the shooting, some Latinos in El Paso told CBS News they are living in fear.

The mother of El Paso shooting suspect 21-year-old Patrick Crusius called police in Allen, Texas, weeks before the deadly shooting, because her son owned an AK 47-style assault rifle, CBS News has confirmed. Crusius is accused of opening fire at an El Paso Walmart on Saturday, killing 22 people and injuring dozens more. Investigators said Crusius drove 10 hours from Allen to El Paso. El Paso police said Sunday that Crusius legally purchased the gun used in the rampage. Crusius is being held on capital murder charges, the El Paso County District Attorney's Office said.

After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 700 potentially undocumented immigrant workers in Mississippi, more than 300 of those taken into custody were released on Thursday, according to Bryan Cox, an ICE spokesman. "All persons released were transported back to their respective arrest locations," Cox said. "We took them all back to the plants where they were arrested. Immigration officials raided five Mississippi food processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in a move witnesses said came with "no warning." The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, planned months ago, targeted seven plants belonging to five companies: Peco Foods, PH Foods Inc., Koch Foods, Pearl River Foods and A&B Inc.Mexico's foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said 107 Mexican nationals had been arrested in the raids, according to Reuters.

A woman touches a cross at a makeshift memorial for victims outside Walmart, near the scene of a mass shooting on Aug. 3 which left at least 22 people dead, on Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (CNN) - The El Paso shooting suspect's mother called the Allen, Texas, Police Department weeks before the shooting because she was concerned about her son owning an "AK" type firearm, lawyers for the family confirmed to CNN. It is not known whether the gun the mother inquired about is the weapon used in the attack. According to police, Crusius opened fire at an El Paso Walmart last Saturday killing 22 people and injuring more than two dozen others. He has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bond at the El Paso County Detention Facility.

But on this morning, a man in khakis brandishing a gun roamed the store in El Paso after opening fire in the parking lot, leaving bullet casings and blood scattered all over. Crusius put his hands up and identified himself as the shooter, El Paso police Sgt. Crusius, 21, bought his "7.62-caliber weapon" near the suburb of Dallas where he lived and drove about 11 hours from his Allen home to the El Paso Walmart, police said. He had no apparent ties to El Paso County, where 83% of residents are Hispanic or Latino, according to the US Census Bureau. He has been cooperating with authorities since his arrest and has volunteered evidence, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said.

The family of the gunman in the El Paso shooting spesks out. The man took about 11 hours to drive from his Allen home to the El Paso Walmart, Allen said. Trump is set to visit El Paso on Wednesday, a plan that was met with backlash from the El Paso County Democratic Party, which in an open letter asked him to cancel his trip. "Since the start of your Administration, El Paso has been ground zero for many of the cruel immigration-related policies enacted by you in your efforts to punish, demonize and terrorize immigrants and immigrant communities," the letter, signed by El Paso County Democratic Party Chairwoman Iliana Holguin, read. CNN's Eliott C. McLauglin reported from El Paso, Texas.

In their political views, the gunmen who brought carnage to two American cities last weekend could not have been more different. Though political views generally play less of a role than personal problems and dysfunction, the publicly available evidence suggests that political ideology played a role in El Paso but not in Dayton. That seems to hold true a little bit more with the El Paso shooter at first view than it does with the Dayton shooter, he said. In contrast, officials have not determined the motive of the Ohio killer or whether his political views played a role. Prosecutors in El Paso have charged Crusius with capital murder.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected on Wednesday to visit El Paso, a heavily Hispanic Texas border city reeling after a shooting rampage in a crowded Walmart left 22 people dead in an attack that appeared to have been racially motivated. Trump, who also plans to visit Dayton, proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty following the incidents. Crusius made an initial court appearance early Sunday, and San Antonio attorney Mark Stevens has been appointed to the case by the court, online court records showed. Calls to the El Paso court, state prosecutors and the defense attorney were not immediately returned. Slideshow (10 Images)Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Saturdays rampage appeared to be a hate crime and federal prosecutors called it domestic terrorism.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Mexico will investigate the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22 people, including eight Mexican citizens, as an act of terrorism and may request the suspected shooter be extradited to Mexico for trial, the countrys foreign minister said on Monday. Ebrard said he would meet with the Mexican attorney general on Tuesday to share results of the U.S. investigation and build a terrorism case. We consider this an act of terrorism, in this case carried out in U.S. territory, but an act of terrorism against Mexicans, Ebrard said at the Mexican consulate in El Paso. It will be the first investigative case of this importance in the history of Mexico regarding terrorism in United States territory, he added. People gather to pay their respects at a growing memorial site two days after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 5, 2019.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, died of their wounds on Monday, police said, raising the death toll to 22 in the massacre as U.S. President Donald Trump planned a visit to the stricken community. The El Paso killings prompted 8chan founder Frederick Brennan, in an interview with the New York Times, to call for the site to be shut down. TRUMP TO VISIT WEDNESDAYEl Paso Mayor Dee Margo told reporters at an afternoon news conference that Trump would visit the city on Wednesday. El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said the suspect was cooperating with investigators. In El Paso, residents brought crosses representing each of the victims to a growing memorial site near the store on Monday.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, died of their wounds on Monday, police said, raising the death toll to 22 in the massacre as U.S. President Donald Trump planned a visit to the stricken community. The El Paso killings prompted 8chan founder Frederick Brennan, in an interview with the New York Times, to call for the site to be shut down. TRUMP TO VISIT WEDNESDAYEl Paso Mayor Dee Margo told reporters at an afternoon news conference that Trump would visit the city on Wednesday. In El Paso, residents on Monday brought crosses representing each of the victims to a growing memorial site near the store. (This story has been corrected to remove party affiliation for El Paso mayor in 11th paragraph.)

Trump coming to El Paso in wake of the tragedy is unnerving some residents and politicians who said his divisive words are partly to blame. Democratic presidential candidate Beto ORourke, who was an El Paso congressman for six years, also said Trump should stay away. Police Chief Greg Allen said Crusius drove more than 10 hours from the Dallas area before arriving in El Paso. Tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross the border each day to work and shop in El Paso. El Paso has long prided itself on being one of the safest cities in the nation.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas died of their wounds on Monday, police said, raising the death toll to 22 in a massacre that prosecutors say was an act of domestic terrorism. The El Paso killings prompted 8chan founder Frederick Brennan, in an interview with the New York Times, to call for the site to be shut down. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Saturdays rampage appeared to be a hate crime and federal prosecutors called it domestic terrorism. Members of motorcycle group pay their respects at a growing memorial site two days after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 5, 2019. Slideshow (9 Images)In El Paso, residents on Monday brought crosses representing each of the victims to a growing memorial site near the store.

EL PASO, Texas - A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 22 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. Lamento los hechos ocurridos en El Paso, Texas, pueblo vecino y hermano de Ciudad Jurez y de nuestra nacin. Margo said he knew the El Paso shooter was not from the city. Before the wall project started, El Paso had been rated one of the three safest major U.S. cities going back to 1997. Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Centers Intelligence Project, said the El Paso shooting suspect wasnt on her groups radar before the shooting.

EL PASO, Texas - A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 21 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. Lamento los hechos ocurridos en El Paso, Texas, pueblo vecino y hermano de Ciudad Jurez y de nuestra nacin. Margo said he knew the El Paso shooter was not from the city. Before the wall project started, El Paso had been rated one of the three safest major U.S. cities going back to 1997. Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Centers Intelligence Project, said the El Paso shooting suspect wasnt on her groups radar before the shooting.

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - A single capital murder charge was filed on Sunday against the man accused of killing 20 people and wounding more than two dozen others at a Walmart store in El Paso, a mass shooting authorities are viewing as a case of domestic terrorism. People pray during a vigil a day after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 4, 2019. The County of El Pasos state court has pre-file case listed for State of Texas vs Patrick Crusius that shows a single charge of capital murder against Crusius. The U.S. attorney for the western district of Texas, John Bash, said federal authorities were treating the El Paso massacre as a case of domestic terrorism. The rampage in El Paso on Saturday was the eighth most deadly mass shooting in recent years in the United States.

CNN Video(CNN) - A 21-year-old man stepped out of his vehicle unarmed and walked up to law enforcement officials shortly after a shooting inside an El Paso, Texas, Walmart on Saturday. He has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bond, El Paso Police Sgt. With the hate-filled writing, which authorities called a 'manifesto,' were the words: "I'm probably going to die today." He also wrote that he worked as a bagger at a grocery store for five months until he lost his mode of transportation. Suspect's grandparents are 'devastated'In a statement delivered by a family spokesperson, the suspect's grandparents said they were "devastated" by the El Paso incident and "pray for the victims of this tragedy."

Rep. Jerry Nadler speaks during protest against gun violence at Times Square in response to recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas and Denton, Ohio on August 4, 2019 in New York City. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Monday that President Donald Trump's call for immigration reform in the wake of two weekend mass shootings that left 29 dead reminded the judiciary committee chairman of Nazi Germany. In response to the two shootings, in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Trump proposed earlier in the day that lawmakers pair "strong background checks" on gun owners with immigration reform. "What's the connection between background checks for guns and immigration reform? "It's disgusting it reminds me of the 1930s in Germany."

What we know about the El Paso shooting22 people were killed and dozens injured in a shooting in a Walmart and parking lot near an El Paso, Texas shopping mall Saturday. More details of what we know about the victims of the El Paso shootingProsecutors in El Paso, Texas, will seek the death penalty for the man suspected of killing 20 people and injuring more than two dozen others. Emotional El Paso shooting survivor shares her storyIn the hours following the attack, there was another mass shooting across the country in Dayton, Ohio. Trump reacts to deadly mass shootings in El Paso and DaytonU.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, who represents El Paso, said on Twitter she was "heartbroken" by the incident and was monitoring the situation. Beto O'Rourke responds to mall shooting in El Paso, TXMore stories from El PasoPat Milton contributed to this report.

Minutes before opening fire, investigators believe accused El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius posted a manifesto to 8chan, an online message board used by extremists. The problem is growing so acute, the FBI released a rare statement Sunday, warning of "the continued threat posed by domestic violent extremists and perpetrators of hate crimes." FBI issues warning on domestic terrorismThe FBI said it has 5,000 open terrorism cases and 850 of those are domestic. To prevent attacks like the ones in El Paso and Dayton, the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit meets regularly to try to intervene before there is violence. The FBI said they remain concerned this weekend's attacks could inspire domestic extremists to engage in more acts of violence.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke , who was an El Paso congressman for six years, also said Trump should stay away. Police Chief Greg Allen said Crusius drove more than 10 hours from the Dallas area before arriving in El Paso. Tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross the border each day to work and shop in El Paso. El Paso has long prided itself on being one of the safest cities in the nation. Associated Press writers Cedar Attanasio in El Paso and Jake Bleiberg in Dallas contributed to this report.

DALLAS - About 20 minutes before the shooting started at an El Paso Walmart, a rambling screed was posted to an online message board saying the massacre was in response to an invasion of Hispanics coming across the southern border. The writer argued that attacking "low-security" targets was a way to "fight to reclaim my country from destruction." "We have to attribute that manifesto directly to him," El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said Sunday at a news conference. Information from an online database shows Crusius registered to vote on Election Day in 2016, not long after his 18th birthday. Crusius responded by tweeting "#BuildTheWall is the best way that @POTUS has worked to secure our country so far!"

EL PASO, Texas - A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. Lamento los hechos ocurridos en El Paso, Texas, pueblo vecino y hermano de Ciudad Jurez y de nuestra nacin. Margo said he knew the El Paso shooter was not from the city. Before the wall project started, El Paso had been rated one of the three safest major U.S. cities going back to 1997. Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Centers Intelligence Project, said the El Paso shooting suspect wasnt on her groups radar before the shooting.

Prosecutors in El Paso, Texas, will seek the death penalty for the man suspected of killing 20 people and injuring more than two dozen others. Emotional El Paso shooting survivor shares her storyIn the hours following the attack, there was another mass shooting across the country in Dayton, Ohio. The El Paso investigation is also being supported by the FBI's Domestic Terrorism-Hate Crimes Fusion Cell. Trump reacts to deadly mass shootings in El Paso and DaytonU.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, who represents El Paso, said on Twitter she was "heartbroken" by the incident and was monitoring the situation. Beto O'Rourke responds to mall shooting in El Paso, TXPat Milton contributed to this report.

The federal government defines domestic terrorism as politically motivated violence designed to coerce or intimidate a civilian population. She supports adopting a federal domestic terrorism law for acts that are meant to intimidate civilians or affect government policy, saying it would demonstrate the government's seriousness about a threat. FBI officials insist they've dedicated appropriate resources to the domestic terrorism threat even without a designated statute. Michael McGarrity, the FBI's top counterterrorism official, recently told lawmakers that the FBI was conducting roughly 850 domestic terrorism investigations. The FBI has also begun classifying domestic terrorism acts into four main categories: racially motivated extremism, anti-government extremism, animal rights extremism and abortion extremism.

Investigators focused on whether the El Paso attack was a hate crime after the emergence of a racist, anti-immigrant screed that was posted online shortly beforehand. Using a rifle, the El Paso gunman opened fire on shoppers during the busy back-to-school season. The attack targeted a Walmart and did not spread to other nearby shopping areas, El Paso police Sgt. El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said he knew the shooter was not from the city. Before the wall project started, El Paso had been rated one of the three safest major U.S. cities going back to 1997.

AdvertisementJaime Esparza, the El Paso district attorney, says he will seek the death penalty for the state murder charges. (Mark Lambie / El Paso Times) 7 / 32 People grieve during a vigil Sunday in El Paso. (Mark Lambie / El Paso Times) 8 / 32 Rene Aguilar and Jackie Flores pray at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturdays mass shooting in El Paso. (Briana Sanchez / El Paso Times ) 13 / 32 Walmart employees react after the mass shooting at their El Paso store. (Mark Lambie / El Paso Times) 14 / 32 A police officer stands outside a home in Allen, Texas, associated with the suspect in Saturdays shooting in El Paso.