El Paso Walmart shooter pleads guilty to capital murder in racist 2019 attack

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019 — one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history — pleaded guilty Monday to capital murder in a state district court.

Judge Sam Medrano told 26-year-old Patrick Crusius he failed in his attack on a community that would have welcomed him "with open arms."

"You came to inflict terror, to take innocent lives, and to shatter a community that had done nothing but stand for kindness, unity and love. You slaughtered fathers, mothers, sons and daughters," Medrano said.