Patrick Crusius believed he was fulfilling Trump’s wishes in El Paso attack, his attorney says

Patrick Crusius believed he was fulfilling Trump’s wishes in El Paso attack, his attorney says

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series from El Paso Matters on issues defense attorneys might have raised if Patrick Crusius had gone to trial for the 2019 Walmart mass shooting. Coming Monday: Long-standing mental health issues preceded Walmart mass shooting, defense attorney says EL PASO, Texas (EL PASO MATTERS) -- Patrick Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of President Donald Trump when he murdered 23 people and wo…

Patrick Crusius believed he was acting under the orders of President Donald Trump when he murdered 23 people and injured 22 others in an El Paso Walmart in 2019, his defense attorney told El Paso Matters. “He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him, which is simply not rational,” defense attorney Joe Spencer said in his first extensive interview about the mass shooting Crusius said was intended to st…

This week, Patrick Wood Crusius, the author of the shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, who left 23 dead and 22 injured, received a proposal for an agreement to release the death penalty. Joe Spencer, Crusius’s chief defense attorney, in an interview with KVIA.com, stated that following arguments that the attack was motivated by racist tendencies, when he met Crusius, told him that although his last name was Spencer, he was Latino, and that …