The perpetrator of the 2019 massacre in a supermarket of the Spanish -speaking El Paso community in Texas said he was guilty today and was sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of release.

Patrick Krousius, who was then 21 years old and had embraced the theory of white tribe’s supremacy, was also sentenced in 2023 by a federal court to 90 times life for the killings of 23 people in this city, located on the border with Mexico. Today, he reached an agreement with the State judicial authorities of Texas and said he was guilty of avoiding the death penalty.

“When you start the rest of your life behind the prison railings, remember: Your mission has failed. You didn’t break up this city, you reinforced it, “Judge Sam Mentrano Junior told him, announcing the sentence.

El Paso residents “will forever remember the lives you have stolen, their names, their stories, their achievements, their light will never erase while your own name and your own hatred will be forgotten,” the judge added.

In early August 2019, Patrick Krousius had posted on the internet a text that repeated the theory of white tribe’s superiority and talked about “invasion of Spaniards in Texas” while praising the action of the slaughter in the Kraisserts mosque in New Zealand.

He then drove for ten hours, from the suburbs of Dallas where he lived, to El Paso and opened fire with a semi -automatic rifle in a Walmart supermarket. When the police arrived, he got out of a car with his hands high and stating that he was the perpetrator. In the interrogation, he confessed that he wanted to kill “Mexicans”.

Of the 23 victims, eight were Mexicans and the rest of the Americans of Latin American descent. The massacre shocked the US and led to a public debate on whether the anti -immigration rhetoric of Republican President Donald Trump was responsible during his first term.

El Paso’s massacre is one of the most long -awaited US history.