2019 El Paso Walmart shooting

2019 El Paso Walmart shooting
2019 El Paso Walmart shooting
	Surveillance camera video showing Crusius exiting the Walmart
Location	31°46′38″N 106°23′03″W / 31.7771°N 106.3843°W; 7101 Gateway West Blvd.; El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Date	August 3, 2019 ; 10:38 – 10:41 a.m. (MDT UTC−06:00)
Target	Mexicans
Attack type	Mass shooting; hate crime; mass murder; domestic terrorism; right-wing terrorism;
Weapon	7.62×39mm GP WASR-10 semi-automatic rifle
Deaths	23
Injured	22
Perpetrator	Patrick Crusius
Motive	Anti-Mexican sentiment; Far-right extremism; Anti-immigration; Racism; White supremacy; Belief in the white genocide conspiracy theory and the Great Replacement conspiracy theory; Ecofascism;
Verdict	Federal, state:; Pleaded guilty
Convictions	Federal convictions: Hate crime resulting in death (23 counts); Use of a firearm to commit murder during and in relation to a crime of violence (23 counts); Hate crimes involving an attempt to kill (22 counts); Use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence (22 counts); State convictions: Capital murder; Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (22 counts);
Sentence	Federal:; 90 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole; State:; 23 concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole
Location of Texas and the United States:
	El Paso El Paso (Texas) El Paso El Paso (the United States)

On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, shot 45 people, killing 23 and injuring 22 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime. The shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.

Crusius surrendered and was arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting. He posted a manifesto with white nationalist and anti-immigrant themes on the imageboard 8chan shortly before the attack. The manifesto cites the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand earlier that year and the far-right conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement as inspiration for the attack. In 2023, Crusius pleaded guilty to 90 federal murder and hate crime charges, and he was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences.

Crusius pleaded guilty to the state charges on April 21, 2025, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.