Patrick Wood Crusius is a white man from Texas, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:
- He lives in Allen, Collin County, Texas with his twin sister Emily Crusius, their older brother Blake Crusius and their parents Bryan Crusius and Lori Crusius. Lori worked as a hospice admissions nurse while Bryan is a therapist. Bryan and his first wife Kathleen Crusius have one son together named Austin Crusius. In 2011, Lori filed for divorce against Bryan.
- In 2014, his father released a memoir titled “Life Enthusiasm: A Path to Purpose Beyond Recovery“, which gave details of his father’s drug and alcohol abuse for decades.
- In June 2017, he graduated from Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas.
- In August 2017, he entered Collin College in McKinney, Collin County, Texas.
- In June 2019, he legally purchased a GP WASR-10 semiautomatic rifle and 1,000 rounds of hollow-point ammunition online. On June 27, 2019, his mother called the Allen Police Department because she was concerned about him owning an AK-type firearm.
- Just before 10:40 a.m. on August 3, 2019, he opened fire at a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall on the east side of El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, killing 23 people and wounding 23 others.
- On September 12, 2019, a grand jury in Texas indicted him on capital murder charges.
- On October 10, 2019, he pleaded not guilty to capital murder charges.
- On February 6, 2020, he was charged with 90 federal charges, which are 23 counts of a hate crime involving an attempt to kill, 23 counts of use of a firearm during a crime, 22 counts of committing a hate crime resulting in death and 22 counts of use of a firearm to commit murder.
- On February 12, 2020, he made his initial appearance in federal court and waved his federal bond hearing.
- On July 23, 2020, he pleaded not guilty to 90 federal charges and waived his arraignment on those charges.
- In February 2022, federal prosecutors asked for a June 2023 trial date while his defense team requested a trial start date of March 2025 or later.
- He was 24 years when he pleaded guilty on February 8, 2023 to 90 federal hate crime and weapons charges before U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama in a courtroom in El Paso.
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