EL PASO, Texas—A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime and weapons charges in a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart in 2019.
Patrick Crusius, 24, showed little emotion while shackled in an El Paso courtroom just a few miles from the store where he was accused of killing 23 people.
Sentencing is not scheduled until later this year, but the U.S. government had previously announced it wouldn’t seek the death penalty. Crusius waived most of his rights to appeal on a total of 90 federal charges, which U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama said would each carry a life sentence….