2019 El Paso Walmart shooting

On the morning of August 3, 2019, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius drove roughly 650 miles from Allen, Texas, to El Paso, arriving at a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall. After conducting reconnaissance inside the store, he returned to his car, posted a manifesto titled "The Inconvenient Truth" to the imageboard 8chan, and retrieved a semi-automatic rifle from his trunk. Beginning at approximately 10:38 a.m., he opened fire, first killing a woman in the parking lot and shooting at people near a girls' soccer team fundraising event, before entering the store and continuing to shoot customers and employees, including inside a bank branch located within the Walmart. He fled the store after roughly two minutes, fired once more at a car in the parking lot, and then drove away before surrendering to law enforcement at a nearby intersection, identifying himself as the shooter.

The attack killed 23 people and injured 22 others; twenty victims died at the scene, and three others died in the days and months following, including one victim who died in April 2020, eight months after the shooting. Victims included thirteen Americans, eight Mexican nationals, and one German citizen, ranging in age from 15 to over 80. The FBI investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime, and it has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.

Crusius's manifesto expressed white nationalist and anti-immigrant themes, cited the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings as inspiration, and referenced the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory. During interrogation, he told detectives he had targeted Mexicans. He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder.

Crusius was charged with capital murder by Texas authorities and separately indicted on 90 federal charges, including hate crimes resulting in death and firearms offenses. On February 8, 2023, he pleaded guilty to all 90 federal charges and was sentenced on July 7, 2023, to 90 consecutive life sentences. On April 21, 2025, he pleaded guilty to the state capital murder charges and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He is incarcerated at the Louis C. Powledge Unit in Palestine, Texas.

The shooting prompted national and international reactions, including condemnation from President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama, and officials in Mexico, where the government considered pursuing terrorism charges against Crusius for the killing of Mexican nationals. Walmart later announced it would stop selling handgun and certain rifle ammunition and discourage open carry of firearms in its stores. Memorials, including the El Paso Healing Garden, were later established, with the garden designated a national memorial in December 2022.