- The killer: The massacre in Patrick's Step the 'jerk'
In the city of El Paso (Texas) it is impossible not to feel compassion for a community reduced to an improvised altar on the ground. 22 white crosses for 22 lives torn from rennet . Above, above the planks, an overwhelming image is spread. An immense flag of the United States sewn to that of Mexico against that policy that handles them as separate pieces.
A little over a week ago, an anti-immigrant, named Patrick Crusius, deliberately searched for "Mexicans" with the desire to annihilate "the more, the better." As if being born on one side of the wall will give you superiority over the others. This 21-year-old aberration was enough 10 minutes to stain the carpet of the recent history of the United States with the greatest attack committed against the Latino population.
He went easy. To an AK-47 rifle, to a city with 80% of Hispanic inhabitants and to its Walmart store (American version of Carrefour or El Corte Inglés). It was half past 10 in the morning of August 3. The store was bursting with Latinos. They drove in with their newly collected payrolls and a few days back to school. Most stacked school supplies when faced with a weapon of war spitting hate. The shelves collapsed with the force of some inert bodies that have been swelling the official list of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador , who announced earlier that he was studying to accuse the terrorist killer. Of the 22 bodies, eight were finally of Mexican nationality. However, Crónica has been able to confirm that Hispanic blood had been scattered on the floor of that mall from 11 other American bodies. In total, 19 dead were carrying Spanish through their veins. Two more were from the United States and one from Germany.
GRANDFATHER HERO
Among the fallen Mexicans, there are four women and four men. Five of Chihuahua and the rest of Aguascalientes, Torreón and Zacatecas. It was what the executioner requested. He began to execute them on the facade of the entrance that took the form of a wall with grandfather Jorge . Torreón was one of the first to fall. At 61, the guy could stand in the parking lot raising money for his granddaughter's soccer team and her friends. He protected them with his life. He was followed by his son Luis, coach of the team, but with better luck. He is one of 24 injured. The rest of the parents escaped. Several witnesses claim that the murderer let the white and black skin run away.
It did not seem enough to this white supremacist. He kept the rite of the trigger easy within the trade. He was detecting more "Mexicans." A few minutes before, he had thrown 2,300 words on the internet with the worst excuse he could speak. Stop the "invasion." The same term with which the president of the United States has hit the undocumented on 32 occasions in the last 10 months. The first time in October in Topeka (Kansas). It was the last since London - and he hasn't returned - a month ago. But the rattle has been given on Facebook repeating "invasion" more than 1,200 times in his re-election announcements as president for 2020, as we verified in the Ad Library of this social network.
Patrick Crusius moved like lightning between exhibitors, shelves, shelves, counters. He found the most saturated point: the cash registers. He had at his mercy a row of customers ordered to pay. He went back to easy. Press the index. He killed a helpless Arturo Benavides , an American pensioner with Hispanic DNA. A stampede of people startled to a bathroom to take refuge was taken to his wife. The next day they would have tasted a Sunday on the terrace humming "old songs" coming out of their old radio. The music at Walmart was another. It became the closest thing to a tune of war against "Mexicans" directed by the baton of an AK-47 at the hands of Crusius.
With military discipline he stacked a row of bodies that still held school supplies in his hands. Like David Johnson's . He failed to pay the supplies for his nine-year-old granddaughter. Before he was shot down, he only had time for one last council of a veteran war grandfather. That he threw himself on the ground with his grandmother, who became dead and protected the little girl with his back. This reflex act was repeated in many people. Mario de Alba did it with his 10-year-old daughter Erika , both from Chihuahua. He had picked her up a few minutes earlier at the airport with his mother after spending a vacation in Denver (Colorado). The three bought things for the new school year. All three were injured.
Iván Filberto Manzano, Juan de Dios Velázquez and grandmother Gloria Irma Márquez , from a poor family, also fell down. Your relatives have opened a GoFundMe account to cover funeral expenses. They are not the only ones who are doing badly economically. Therefore, on one side and another of the border, 10 funeral homes are giving away their services.
The murderer also showed no compassion for María Eugenia Legarreta Rothe of Chihuahua. He shot her without caring that her daughter was waiting for her at the airport after a few days of camping.
The couple formed by Sara Esther Regalado and Adolfo Cerros Hernández was also sentenced to death. As if it were a crime to be from Ciudad Juárez and Aguascalientes. As if speaking Spanish was a reason to be executed. The couple spent the weekend shopping in the United States and then returned to their native Mexico. They will, but with the mortuary aesthetic of the rest of the annihilated Mexicans.
The first was Elsa Mendoza de la Mora , riddled in the supermarket while her husband Antonio and one of her two teenage children were waiting in the car. This white school principal has been led by white supremacism, more deadly than the cancer she overcame. On Wednesday he crossed the border with his feet ahead in a tinted glass car. Thursday was buried. She. And the American dream of not being killed by the simple fact of being Latino.
Antonio Texeira is host of the North American corporation NBC Universal Telemundo based in Las Vegas (Nevada)
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