The profile of the massacre shooter in Texas that killed 20 people | Chronic

Patrick Crusius, A 21-year-old man entered Saturday a commercial store in El Paso, a border town in the United States on the Mexican border. He killed 20 people and wounded 26 others, in a shooting that is already among the top ten in the history of the North American country.

"It's a sad day in the history of El Paso," says the governor of the state, Greg Abbott.

According to preliminary reports, the 21-year-old was the only attacker and did not resist his arrest. As stated, Crusius traveled for nine hours to perpetrate the mbadacre.

El Paso is on the border with the Mexican city of Juárez and a large number of Aztecs use it as a shopping center.

One of the main hypotheses retained by the researchers is that it would be a "possible hate crime " and they do not exclude that the native of Allen is a "white supremacist. "

"My goal was to kill as many Mexicans as possible.The young man reportedly said when he was arrested.

"We now have a manifesto of this individual that indicates to a certain extent a connection with a possible hate crime", said El Paso police chief Greg Allen.

That is, even though there has been no official confirmation, various media around the world have issued a manifesto that would belong to Crusius, in which he claims that the attack was a "The Hispanic invasion of Texas. "

During the press conference, the authorities indicated that the document was loaded with "hate, bigotry and bigotry". "At the moment, we can not give you detailed information, before we have to make sure that the manifest belongs to the person arrested", Allen pointed out.

The text also expresses its sympathy for the author of the shooting at the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand, during which 51 people died in two consecutive attacks in March.

He also complained that the AK-47 rifle that he had chosen "it was not designed to fire shells quickly, so it overheats long after about 100 successive shots. "PTo counter this, he said that he would wear a heat-resistant glove.

Crusius wrote that he had probably spent less than a month preparing for the shoot. "I have to do it before I lose heart", noted in the text.

In that manifesto, Crusius was referring to the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, where a white man had killed 51 worshipers by opening fire inside a mosque in March, claiming that he was "deadly". it was "defend " in the USA "of cultural and ethnic replacement caused by an invasion".

In the document, he says his death will be "probably inevitable ":" If the police do not kill me, one of the invaders will probably shoot me. "

"In this case, the capture is much worse than the death during the shooting, because I will still receive the death penalty," he added.

El Paso police said that there was no exchange of gunfire when Crusius had been arrested.