The 21-year-old, who killed 22 people last August in El Paso, Texas, was charged with capital crime on Thursday [September 22nd], making him punishable by death.
The author of the El Paso shooting, which left 22 dead and 26 wounded last month, was indicted Thursday by a Texas grand jury for capital crime, punishable by death, the prosecutor said local.
Patrick Crusius, 21, had released a manifesto in which he presented his act as a response to the"Hispanic invasion of Texas".
From his hometown of Allen, in northern Texas, he drove on August 3 for 11 hours to reach El Paso, on the New Mexico border, where he attacked a supermarket armed with a rifle. assault, opening fire on the crowd, before surrendering to the police. The majority of his victims belonged to the Hispanic minority.
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