Locals are outraged by the mysterious flip flop by the district attorney in El Paso, Texas after he decided not to seek the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, the man who has already admitted to killing 23 people in a Walmart store because they were Hispanic. Despite campaigning on the promise to seek the lethal injection for Crusius, Democratic District Attorney James Montoya informed family members of the Walmart victims that he would no longer ask for the state’s highest form of punishment Monday, according to El Paso Matters. Montoya has refused to explain his change of heart, citing a gag order as the reason he can’t take about the biggest case in the city’s history publicly. However, the families of the victims and the residents of Texas’ sixth largest city have made it clear they want the death penalty of Crusius. ‘We’re not going to have full closure until there was a trial with a death penalty on there,’ Dee Margo, who was mayor when the shooting and attended the funeral of each victim, told DailyMail.com Tuesday. ‘I think it’s wrong. I don’t understand. We lost 23 people.’ The 2019 mass shooting, one of the deadliest in US history, rocked the West Texas city, as Crusius drove 10 hours from Allen, Texas, to the border for the sole purpose of hunting down Latinos in the 85% Hispanic community. Many victim’s families did not want to comment because a gag order has been issued for any potential witnesses in this case, however, outrage in the city erupted on social media. Angry comments flooded online forums sharing Montoya’s decision, particularly because the Democrat just took office in January, beating former Republican DA Bill Hicks who had made it clear he would seek the death penalty.
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