The El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooter who killed 23 people in a racist rampage against Hispanics in 2019 has agreed to pay over $5 million in restitution to the victims’ families.
The 25-year-old shooter was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in prison in July after having pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges in connection with the Aug. 3, 2019, attack.
Authorities have said he was fueled by white nationalist ideas and had posted a diatribe against immigrants before he targeted Hispanics, armed with a rifle.
A court document filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas titled "joint motion on agreed restitution" says the shooter “agrees to pay restitution in the amount of $5,557,005.55 to the claimants."
U.S. District Judge David C. Guaderrama granted and signed the motion.
Joe Spencer, an attorney for the shooter, said Monday that the shooter "has accepted the amount of restitution that was determined by the United States probation department that is due to the victims.”
Patrick Wood Crusius traveled almost 600 miles from North Texas to El Paso before he opened fire on shoppers. Twenty-two people were injured in addition to the staggering death toll.
Minutes before the attack, he posted a hate-filled racist screed online in which he referred to an “invasion” of immigrants to the U.S., the Justice Department said.
The shooter still faces a separate state trial in Texas, where he is charged with 23 counts of capital murder and could be eligible for the death penalty.
