2023-09-26 02:02:23
Texas
El Paso shooter to pay victims’ families millions
The El Paso attack is considered one of the worst mass murders in US history. Judges and lawyers have agreed on a compensation amount.
Published26. September 2023, 04:02
Patrick C. killed 23 people in a racially motivated attack on a store (August 2019).
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Surveillance footage shows the alleged perpetrator, then 21-year-old Patrick C.
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Lawyers and the Ministry of Justice have agreed that Patrick C. must pay the victims’ families more than $5 million in compensation. Pictured: Commemoration on the anniversary of the attack (August 3, 2023).
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The El Paso attack is considered one of the worst mass murders in US history.
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Patrick C. killed 23 people in the racially motivated attack on a store in El Paso.
Convicted shooter Patrick C. is now expected to pay the victims’ families more than five million dollars in compensation.
The El Paso attack is considered one of the worst mass murders in US history.
In the case of one racially motivated attack at a store in El Paso, Texas, with 23 deaths in 2019 the convicted shooter Pay more than $5 million in compensation to the victims’ families. The lawyers of 25-year-old Patrick C. and the US Department of Justice agreed on this sum, according to the court documents. A judge approved the agreement on Monday.
The shooter faces the death penalty
However, there are no indications that C. has any significant assets. He was 21 years old and had dropped out of a community college when, according to police, he drove more than 1,100 kilometers from his home near Dallas to El Paso in early August 2019 to shoot people with an assault rifle in front of and in a store he thought were Latinos. Shortly before the crime, C. had posted a racist diatribe on the Internet in which he railed against a Hispanic “invasion” in Texas.
The El Paso attack is considered one of the worst mass murders in US history. In July, C. was sentenced to 90 life sentences after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime. A trial at the Texas state level is still pending, where he could face the death penalty.
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