White supremacist linked to Texas car chase, Colo. slaying

An alleged white supremacist shot in the head after a car chase and gun battle with police in Texas may be linked to the murder of Colorado prison chief Tom Clements, sources tell CBS Denver affiliate KCNC.

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Parolee Evan Ebel is being investigated for that killing, sources tell CBS Denver affiliate KCNC. The 28-year-old Denver man is being kept alive on life support and is not expected to survive.

KCNC's Rick Sallinger also reports that Ebel has been identified as a member of the white supremacist prison gang known as the "211s," a.k.a. the Brotherhood of Aryan Alliance.

The chase began when Texas officers in Montague County tried to pull over a known drug suspect and were fired on by someone inside the black Cadiliac.

The Montague Sheriff's office said James Boyd, the deputy who first approached the vehicle, was shot, but Boyd is expected to make a full recovery.

A chase spanning two counties ensued. Eventually, the suspect crashed the Cadillac into an 18 wheeler near Decatur, Texas. After the crash, he emerged from the wreck and opened fired on police. Deputies returned fire, and he was shot in the head, authorities say.

"He didn't plan on being taken alive," said Decatur Police Chief Rex Hoskins, according to KCNC. "It didn't look like he wanted to be caught or taken alive."

Clements, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, was killed Tuesday night when he answered the door at his home in Monument, Colo. Texas authorities are checking whether the black Cadillac with Colorado plates in the car chase was the same vehicle spotted near Clements' home the night he was killed.

Ebel is also being investigated in Sunday's shooting death of a Denver Domino's pizza delivery man, Nathan Leon.

The "211s" gang was founded in 1995 by habitual criminal Benjamin Davis at Colorado's Denver County Jail.

• Tom Clements Update: Police seek car in Colo. Dept. of Corrections Chief's killing

Suspect is carried on a stretcher following a car chase and crash in northern Texas.

/ Jimmy Alford / Wise County Messenger

Clements is the fifth criminal justice official in the United States to be targeted since the beginning of the year, including the still unsolved murder of a Texas prosecutor shot dead outside a courthouse in January, CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports.

Glenn McGovern, an investigator with the District Attorney's Office in Santa Clara County, Calif., found that there were 35 such attacks or attempted attacks between 2010 and 2012. That's nearly as many as all the attacks on public officials over the prior nine years. The primary motive, McGovern told Strassmann, appears to be revenge.

"It's very worrisome," McGovern said. "No government agency besides maybe the Secret Service provides 24-hour protection. We can't do that."

[BWB2020]

One less bagger.

Who says the media only publishes bad news...

[BWB2020]

slow_news
"...http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
Definition 2.
Of course, that's only the oldest dictionary in the country..."

So definition 1. doesn't apply?

That's what makes you baggers so much fun, your cherry-picking only makes you sillier!

Oh bTW, you are free to show where any of my comments fits even definition 2.

[BWB2020]

BTW, I don't run from anyone, don't flatter yourself. Its just that sometimes we in the real world have work to do, and a life to live, I don't spend all my time here showing you baggers your own ignorance.

[ToniWal5640]

I wonder if this man was the man who fatally killed the prosecutor in Texas a few weeks ago. There were two people in the car that killed him. He was from Kaufman Co. Stands to reason that they should look at him for the murder of the Colorado prison official AND FOR THE MURDER OF THE PROSECUTOR IN KAUFMAN COUNTY!

[kalizhada]

Ah the rule of assassination is the gunman must never be allowed to survive to protect the rest of the conspirators. At least this is what it obviously smells like.

[BWB2020]

LOL! He ain't so "supreme" now!

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Which race has used racism to subjugate other races here in America?

[FredNugent99]

I know, and it's funny how his fellow racists are so upset that the fact that he's a white supremacist is being reported. Like, "Hey, don't tell people that. It makes us look bad."

[bluemoon4]

"Getting Americans to really believe they were "Black" and "White" was the greatest plan of ours to ruin the USA without a missile"

Quoted
An ex-communist death bed confession

[CMVHighPriest]

Keep the body alive plugged into the grid and deliver it back to his gang as a reminder; sitting in a hallway ticking time away; so they can change the diapers and clean up the slops created by their edifice of how they want a society to run. Gangs need a reality check; instead of the usual hype, "he's a gang member etc. to fear" the tough guys need to work in a nursing home for a while then I will allow them to add a Stripe to their sleeve, meanwhile pumping iron ain't squat.
CMVHighPriest

[Slf68]

Sounds like a great idea! We need more sheriffs like the one in Arizona. Those guys love their pink underwear!!

[matt6052]

Clements was a champion of good government, a strident and fearless reformer, and an anti-corruption hero to all who knew him. Authorities have killed the ex-con, skinhead drug dealer and that's the end of it.

[Lmaris1]

Not reading for comprehension? Not the end of it, merely another in a series of repeated murderous attacks on our legal system by a terrorist group. Of course the media won't call them terrorists, since they're white christians.

[ToniWal5640]

If only what you say is true! That is NOT THE END OF IT! We had a prosecutor killed several weeks ago, and his killers were probably of the same gang! He hasn't been caught to my knowledge. These folk are the white supremacist terrorist and until they are made to pay for their actions, it will never be the end of it. I think the French had the right idea. Lock them in solitary for the total of their sentences, with food and water and an hour of sunlight--no television, no radio, just their prison cell with selected readings. That may be causing problems with the Constitution, but sometimes the constitution should be for citizens, not people who commit these types of crimes.

[edmundo22]

A white supremacist shot in the head...sounds right.

[Rafterman11]

PATRIOT__70 replies: We may all bleed red, but democrats were killing blacks in the 60's, were killing blacks in the 30's, and were killing blacks after the Civil War when they formed the KKK. Now, democrat are saying that it's republicans that blacks need to watch out for, but in general, Republicans have fought alongside blacks, died alongside blacks, and stood against democrats alongside blacks for over two hundred years.

When blacks finally realize they have been lied to, I really feel for what they will do to democrats.

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"In general."

LOL. Your ignorance of understanding history is laughable. Back then, southern Democrats were the backbone of conservatives in this country and those "dixiecrats" were, after the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, driven out of the Democratic party and to the Republicans.

So, voting for Democrats in 1860 or 1950 might have been a bad idea for blacks. But it is not 1860 or 1950. It is 2013. And in 2013, a black person voting for Republicans is a black person voting against their own self-interests. It is the GOP that is lying to black Americans today. The GOP tells blacks that all they need to do to move forward in life is to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps - but then refuse to give them the bootstraps to do it.