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The Associated Press

A man pleads guilty to federal charges in the El Paso shooting that targeted Latinos

A decorated rock remembering the victims of the August 2019 mass shooting rests at a memorial site in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday. The defendant in the deaths of 23 people pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and weapons charges. (Andrés Leighton/AP)

EL PASO, Texas — A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime and weapons charges in the racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, which prosecutors say was preceded by the gunman posting an online screed that warned of a "Hispanic invasion."

Patrick Crusius, 24, showed little emotion while shackled in an El Paso courtroom just a few miles from the store where he was accused of killing 23 people, including citizens of Mexico, in what remains one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

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