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.Crusius’s defence lawyers had called on Saturday for a new hearing in federal court to allow the defendant to update his plea from not guilty.
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