US EditionA woman hugs the man who fatally shot her brother and 22 more in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart
- Speaking to the gunman who killed her brother and 22 others, Yolanda Tinajero forgave him and hugged him during victim impact statements in an El Paso courtroom.
- Patrick Crusius, a white community college dropout, had posted online a screed about a Hispanic invasion before opening fire with an AK-style rifle at a Walmart near the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, killing 23 people.
- Crusius pleaded guilty to capital murder and 22 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and will serve multiple life sentences.
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Families of El Paso shooting victims ask to hug gunman in court
The power of forgiveness and its ability to mend emotional wounds was on display in an El Paso courtroom as families of the 23 shot and killed during a hate-filled mass shooting spoke of their painful loss. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor Maurice DuBois has more.
Inside the decision to allow 2 victims to hug the gunman who killed their loved ones
When Yolanda Tinajero told the man that killed her brother Arturo Benavides that she felt a desire to hug him but knew it wasn’t allowed, District Judge Sam Medrano felt a personal connection.“The first thing that moved me about her was her true faith in trying to forgive. And I’ll be honest with you, she reminded me of my mom. My mom would do the same thing,” Medrano said in an interview with El Paso Matters on Wednesday, a day after two women …
"I don't know how she could do this": at the trial of her brother's murderer, she takes the accused in her arms
In August 2019, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, a white supremacist, killed 23 people in a supermarket in Texas. Six years later, one of the victims' sisters decided to forgive him.
A gunman killed their loved ones in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart. They hugged him at a court hearing
In an El Paso courthouse not far from where a gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in a 2019 attack targeting Hispanic shoppers, victims’ family members and survivors got their last chance to address him face-to-face in court this week.
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