El Paso attack victim’s family files lawsuit

The family of an 86-year-old woman killed in the Aug. 3 massacre at an El Paso Walmart has sued suspected gunman Patrick Crusius, his family and 8chan, the website where police said Crusius posted a racist manifesto before the shooting.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by Angelina Maria Silva Englisbee’s family, seeks more than $1 million in damages.

Englisbee was one of 22 people killed when Crusius, a 21-yearold North Texas native, entered the store with an assault-style rifle and took aim at Hispanic shoppers, police said. Investigators said he drove from North Texas to El Paso to carry out the crime. The victim’s son, William

Englisbee, said he’s hopeful other victims’ families will pursue similar lawsuits.

“Hate is not something that we’re born with,” he told the El Paso Times. “It festered and brewed inside this guy somehow, someway. He came to El Paso with a lot of malice, a lot of evil, the intent to hurt, and my mom was in the way and murdered.”

Englisbee went to the Walmart that day to buy food and school supplies for her grandchildren, her family told the El Paso Times.

In their suit, family members accused several people linked to the website 8chan of promoting and encouraging a hateful environment on the platform, leading to the shooting. Police said they believe Crusius posted a racist manifesto targeting Hispanic immigrants to the online message board before the shooting.