The person convicted of shooting down nearly two decades Walmart shoppers in Texas was accessible to authorities, voluntarily replying to investigators about one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history, officials said Sunday.
While Greg Allen, Chief of Police at El Paso, refused to comment on what kind of claims suspected mass murderer Patrick Wood Crusius is making, the 21-year-old obviously spoke openly.
"He was forthcoming with information," Allen informed journalists. "He basically didn’t hold anything back. Particular questions were asked and he responded in the way it needed to be answered."
Prosecutors said they will try capital punishment on Sunday against Crusius, who was detained at around 10:30 a.m. soon after he supposedly murdered 20 and injured 26 by setting fire at a Walmart, packed with back-to-school clients. on Saturday.
"He is eligible for the death penalty, we will seek the death penalty," Jaime Esparza informed journalists in El Paso District Attorney. "The loss of life is so great we have never seen anything like this in our community."
The prosecutor of the county said inhabitants of El Paso are demanding retribution.
"Like the bright sunshine today, that is us," said Esparza. "We are really a good, loving community, but we will hold him accountable."
Moments subsequently, the United States. John Bash said his national attorneys are researching Crusius "with a view towards bringing federal hate crime charges ... and federal firearms charges which carry a penalty of death."
Shortly before the murder, the accused published a diatribe against immigrants, a distinguished senior law force officer informed NBC News. He railed against Texas immigrants and pressed talk lines to preserve America's European identity.
According to the United States, El Paso, the 22nd biggest town in the nation with an approximate workforce of 682,669, is more than 80% Hispanic or Latino. Data from the census.
"We are also treating this as a domestic terrorism case," Bash said. "This meets it and appears to be designed to intimidate a civilian population, to say the least. We're treating it as a domestic terrorism case and we're going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is to deliver swift and certain justice."
Crusius, a native of Allen, Texas, supposedly legally bought the assassination weapon, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, informed KTSM on Sunday to NBC El Paso station.
According to El Paso prison documents, the supposed assassin was kept on capital homicide allegations.
Police said on Sunday they began taking corpses from the Walmart.
The El Paso police chief said when asked to describe the scene's carnage he couldn't potentially draw a precise image. He could only speak to the smell of death.
"When I first got into this job I never knew there was an odor to blood. There is," Allen said. "And until you first-hand see that, my description of it as far as horrific would be under-serving as far as what that scene looks like."
