Relatives of El Paso Walmart Shooting Victims Seek Justice, Saying They’re Down but Not Out

Paul Jamrowski, father of Jordan Anchondo and father in-law of Andre Anchondo, who both died in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting, breaks down in tears while speaking to the media outside the federal court in El Paso, Texas, on July 5, 2023. Andrés Leighton/AP Photo

EL PASO, Texas—A brother who traveled more than 1,000 miles to confront his sister’s killer. An uncle of an orphaned 4-year-old whose parents died while shielding the boy from the spray of bullets. A wife whose husband was gunned down at her side while their 9-year-old granddaughter looked on.

Nearly four years after a gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso in an attack that targeted Hispanic shoppers, relatives of the victims are packing a courtroom near the U.S.–Mexico border this week to see Patrick Crusius punished for one of the nation’s worst mass shootings.