The suspect accused of killing 22 people and injuring more than two dozen others in a rampage that targeted Mexicans at an El Paso Walmart has been charged with 90 federal charges, including 45 hate crimes.
The indictments were handed up Thursday afternoon by a federal grand jury in El Paso. The Department of Justice formally announced the charges against Patrick Wood Crusius Thursday afternoon. U.S. officials want him held without bond.
At a news conference at 5 p.m. Thursday, John Bash, U.S. attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas; Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice; and Luis Quesada, FBI special agent in charge of the El Paso Field Office, said the federal government will prosecute the case and ensure justice for the victims.