NBC NEWS – Investigators are looking into whether a paroled white supremacist may have killed a pizza delivery man and gunned down the top prisons official in Colorado before he led Texas authorities on a wild chase and shootout.
One theory in the case is that the parolee killed the delivery man for his uniform, and used the disguise to get the prisons official to open the door.
Investigators also believe the spree may be connected to a gang of white supremacists who are still in prison. Authorities from Colorado have traveled to Texas and are doing forensics tests to try to connect the crimes.
Sources identified the white supremacist to NBC affiliate KUSA as Evan Spencer Ebel. Medical examiners said he died Thursday after the chase and shootout in Texas.
“We don’t know yet exactly whether this is the guy,” Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told reporters. “There’s some indication. I hope it is.”
The prisons official, Tom Clements, was shot to death at his front door Tuesday night in the Denver suburbs. A dark car was seen idling outside, and authorities launched a manhunt.
Two days later and hundreds of miles away, late Thursday morning in Texas, authorities came across a dark sedan in a traffic stop. The man inside shot a sheriff’s deputy three times before speeding away.
As more police followed, the man opened fire again.
“When he came by me, he was running I’d say around 100 miles an hour, just had his left arm out the window, and he was just shooting,” said Rex Hoskins, chief of the Decatur, Texas, police. “He wasn’t planning on being taken alive.”
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