Family members of the 23 people killed in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart are confronting the gunman face-to-face in court for the first time since the 2019 massacre.
The sentencing phase, which continued Thursday, is the families' first opportunity to address Crusius face-to-face since the Aug. 3, 2019 shooting.
"He set out to hurt people because he said Hispanics were taking over. I just want him to know his efforts were in vain," Anchondo said. "Yeah, we lost a lot of people. … The ones that are still here, we're still pushing forward." But he and his wife still traveled all the way from Omaha, Nebraska, to hear what other families say to the gunman. The sight of Crusius being led into the courtroom Wednesday caused Reckard to convulse and left him wiping tears from his eyes."I just think that us coming here is to take a stand," she said. "You knocked us down, you didn't knock us out."
Dean Reckard, brother of Margie Reckard, who died in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting, leaves the federal court in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday. Patrick Crusius, who is accused of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in August 2019, is set to receive multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to federal hate crimes and weapons charges in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
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