A man shot in the Aug. 3 attack in an El Paso Walmart has died after months in the hospital, raising the death toll from the attack to 23, a hospital official says.
Police said they arrested Crusius near the shooting after he surrendered to officers, telling them he was targeting “Mexicans.” They also attributed to him a four-page racist screed that decried a Hispanic “invasion” of Texas and the U.S., and called for ethnic and racial segregation.
The shooting was the largest terrorist attack targeting Latinos in modern history and spread fear throughout the Latino community. In the wake of the attack, El Paso police said the Walmart had previously hired armed off-duty police officers to guard larger stores but removed them at some point. The Garcia family joined a number of victims who sued the Walmart over lack of security on the busy Saturday shopping day when about 3,000 people were in the store. The lawsuit is ongoing.
Following the attack, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company added armed and unarmed officers to all of its stores. It stopped selling handguns and short-barrel rifle ammunition.
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