"I just think that us coming here is to take a stand," she said. Hilda Reckard, Dean's wife, said they were there to "stand up to hate." The sight of Crusius being led into the courtroom Wednesday caused Reckard to convulse and left him wiping tears from his eyes. "And who's to say what justice is? What we do is we try to deal with it as every other family has, which is to continue to go on with your life."ĭean Reckard said he has nothing to say to the man who killed his mother, Margie Reckard.īut he and his wife still traveled all the way from Omaha, Nebraska, to hear what other families say to the gunman. "These lives will never be brought back to life, so how is that justice?" Jamrowski said. He said he forgives Crusius, and that he's unsure whether justice can ever really be served. Paul Jamrowski, Jordan Anchondo's father, said it was excruciating to sit in the same courtroom as Crusius on Wednesday. Anchondo said the boy has begun to understand the loss of his parents and grapples with it on special occasions, such as Father's Day, and at the sight of family portraits. … The ones that are still here, we're still pushing forward." I just want him to know his efforts were in vain," Anchondo said. "He set out to hurt people because he said Hispanics were taking over. Less than a half-hour before the attack, Crusius posted an online rant about a supposed "invasion" of Texas by Hispanics and warned they would take over the government and economy. Tito Anchondo, Andre's brother, said he will forgive Crusius but also wants to explain to him how he failed.
Here is some of what the families told Crusius, and what others want from the sentencing:įamily members credit Jordan Anchondo and Andre Anchondo with shielding their 2-month-old child Paul during the attack, in which they were both killed. He could still receive the death penalty under separate charges in state court. 3, 2019 shooting.Ĭrusius, 24, is expected to receive multiple life sentences in federal prison after pleading guilty to 90 murder, weapons and hate crime counts in February. The sentencing phase, which continued Thursday, is the families' first opportunity to address Crusius face-to-face since the Aug.
Nearly four years after a white gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso in a racist attack that targeted Hispanic shoppers, relatives of the victims are packing a courtroom near the U.S.-Mexico border this week to see Patrick Crusius punished for one of the nation's worst mass shootings. A wife whose husband was gunned down at her side while their 9-year-old granddaughter looked on. An uncle of an orphaned 4-year-old whose parents died while shielding the boy from the spray of bullets. EL PASO, Texas - A brother traveled more than 1,000 miles to confront his sister's killer.
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