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Suspect in Texas anti-immigrant shooting changes plea to guilty

Patrick Crusius, centre, had previously pleaded not guilty to federal hate crimes [Briana Sanchez/El Paso Times via AP]

Patrick Crusius, the suspect in a 2019 Texas mass shooting allegedly prompted by anti-immigrant hate, has changed his plea to guilty in a United States federal court.

The switch on Wednesday comes two and a half weeks after the US Department of Justice announced that it would not pursue the death penalty in the shooting, which killed 23 people, many of whom were Latino, at a Walmart in the border city of El Paso.

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