The gunman who killed 23 people and injured 22 others in a 2019 mass shooting aimed at Latinos at a Texas Walmart pleaded guilty to murder on Monday and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole,

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed 23 people when he targeted Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in Texas in 2019 pleaded guilty Monday to capital murder and was scolded by a judge over the racist attack in El Paso near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Patrick Crusius, who is white, was 21-years-old when he drove more than 700 miles from his home in Dallas to target Hispanics in El Paso in a deadly mass shooting