Police: Texas shootout may be linked to Colo. official's slaying

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CBS News:

Police are looking into whether or not a shootout with police officers in Texas is linked to the murder of Colorado prison chief Tom Clements, CBS Denver affiliate KCNC reports.

 

Clements, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, was killed after he answered the door at his home in Monument Tuesday night.

 

Texas authorities are checking whether a shooting suspect's black Cadillac with Colorado plates was the same car spotted near the Clements' home the night he was killed.

 

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The article has other interesting info.

5 criminal justice officials have been targeted since Jan.

 

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A man who led Texas authorities on a 100 mph car chase that ended in a shootout Thursday and may be linked to the slaying of Colorado's state prison chief is a paroled prison inmate, officials said.

 

The Denver Post reported that the man is 28-year-old Evan Spencer Ebel. A federal law enforcement official confirmed that identity to The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/21/3298198/car-walker-sought-in-colo-corrections.html#storylink=cpy

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If officials like Clements get a deluge of threats, WHY did he answer his door at 8:30 at night?

 

Driving the same car all the way to TX? A pizza delivery guy possibly murdered by the same shooter? It just gets more and more strange.