El Paso Shooter Was a Trump Worshiper
By Brett Barrouquere and Hatewatch Staff, Southern Poverty Law Center
04 August 19
A Twitter account bearing the suspect's name contains liked tweets that
include a "BuildTheWall" hashtag, a photo using guns to spell out "Trump,"
and posts from Paul Joseph Watson, a far-right Youtuber who works with Alex
Jones at InfoWars.
Additionally, police in west Texas are looking into whether the suspect
posted an anti-immigrant "manifesto" online before the shooting.
NBC News identified the suspect as Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas, citing
unspecified police sources.
A Twitter account bearing the suspect's name contains liked tweets that
include a "BuildTheWall" hashtag, a photo using guns to spell out "Trump,"
and posts from Paul Joseph Watson, a far-right Youtuber who works with Alex
Jones at InfoWars.
Authorities are examining a four-page document that several media outlets
are calling a manifesto. Authorities are trying to determine the document's
authenticity and whether there are ties to the suspect.
The document mentions the suspect in the Christchurch, New Zealand mass
shooting at two mosques that left 51 people dead in March. The suspect in
that shooting has pleaded not guilty.
The manifesto allegedly linked to the El Paso shooting suspect contains
white nationalist talking points on "ethnic displacement" and "race mixing"
and refers to immigrants to the United States as "invaders."
It also makes brief mention of using a WASR-10 Kalashnikov pattern rifle,
which is consistent with the security camera footage that shows the alleged
shooter shouldering an AK-47 rifle.
The shooting took place just after 11 a.m. local time at a store in El Paso
as parents and children took advantage of a tax-free shopping day before
school begins. El Paso, which is almost 80% Hispanic, is just 12 miles from
the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.
Police have not yet issued a statement on the veracity of the alleged
manifesto or its relationship to the suspect.
The shooting took place in the city of 840,000 just across the Rio Grande
River from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The U.S.-Mexico border has been a big
issue on the far right, with talk of "invaders" from predominantly
Spanish-speaking countries crossing into the United States.
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