A sufferer of the mass capturing at an El Paso Walmart final summer season has died from his accidents, a hospital official mentioned Sunday, elevating the demise toll to 23.
“After a virtually nine-month battle, our hearts are heavy as we report Guillermo ‘Memo’ Garcia, our final remaining affected person being handled from the El Paso capturing, has handed away,” the CEO of Del Sol Medical Middle, David Shimp, mentioned in an announcement.
Garcia was within the Walmart car parking zone fundraising for his daughter’s soccer group together with his spouse, Jessica Coca Garcia, when suspected gunman Patrick Crusius, 21, opened hearth in an assault concentrating on Hispanics.
Garcia’s spouse survived the capturing, struggling leg wounds.
Crusius is in jail awaiting trial. He advised police he focused Mexicans when he walked into the Texas retailer with an AK-47 assault rifle Aug. three and started firing — with eight Mexican residents among the many useless.
He additionally posted a racist screed on-line complaining of the “Hispanic invasion of Texas,” writing that he was “merely defending my nation from cultural and ethnic substitute introduced on by an invasion.”
State prosecutors have charged Crusius with homicide and are pursuing the demise penalty. Federal prosecutors charged him with hate crimes.
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