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January 31, 2013 2:19 PM

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Texas assistant DA killed near courthouse identified as Chief Prosecutor Mark Hasse, report says

By: Casey Glynn
Topics: Daily Blotter

Officials responding to the scene where authorities say an assistant district attorney has been shot and killed near the North Texas county courthouse where he worked on Jan. 31, 2013.

/ KTVT/KTXA via CBS DFW

(CBS/KTVT/AP) KAUFMAN COUNTY - Officials have confirmed the identity of a Texas assistant district attorney shot and killed Thursday near the courthouse where he worked as Chief Prosecutor Mark Hasse, CBS DFW reports.

The shooting occurred just before 9 a.m. Thursday outside a building across from the main Kaufman County courthouse.

Authorities say two suspects in the shooting are now being sought.

At a Thursday. press conference, officials said Hasse was walking from the parking lot to his office when he was assaulted by an unknown person and "shot multiple times," according to CBS DFW. Hasse was then taken to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Local law enforcement officials decried the shooting as an attack on the criminal justice system.

"We understand that we may come into contact with violent people but this is the next level," Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes said at the press conference conference.

Officials didn't immediately indicate any motive for the shooting.

Mark Hasse graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1981 and had been licensed to practice law since 1982, CBS DFW reports. The 57-year-old had been a Kaufman County District Attorney since July of 2010.

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by scarybrook February 1, 2013 8:46 AM EST: That's what I'm talking about.Kill Lawyers,politians and cops.If all us gang members would stick together and leave race, color aside,we could wipe these pricks out.Stop killing kids and start killing these instead.; Reply to this comment


by merlin215 January 31, 2013 7:14 PM EST: A perfect example of why the penalties should be to put these nut cases on death row ! Period ! Disgusting that a poor prosecutor doing his job was killed . God bless him . These are NOT by sane people ! When are anyone going to wake up and realize that these gang bangers and criminals are the cause of these deaths of hard working people ? Its time the Local State and Feds put money into local communities and root out these bad guys period and make the laws tougher !!! More boots on the streets . Look at Chicago , as they made a great decision to put more cops on the beats !!! It is NOT guns that are doing this . It is the insanity of the people behind the guns ! Cultures and laws MUST change in order to bring these people to understand basic human values . Find these guys and Fry them period ! After a lot of Death penalties these guys will think twice instead of ending up in club fed !!! To heck with the ACLU as its time to realize what is going on ! Put them on death row and watch gun crimes go down ....; Reply to this comment


by ptywater January 31, 2013 6:57 PM EST: This is such a shock. Mark was a good friend of ours. I am having trouble understanding how this could happen to him. He was so special to us. What a loss. Thank you all for the kind comments. It's so sad others can be so heartless.; Reply to this comment


by aintfakin January 31, 2013 6:37 PM EST: at least the two guys who shot each other in the college at San Antonio were both armed....2 consenting adults.....right? Too bad an innocent bystander was shot too.
We need to get some control over these shootings....maybe by making some rules. The NRA should organize fair gunfights kinda like that movie "The Quick and the Dead"
problem is most of their members are probably chiken hawks; Reply to this comment


by aintfakin January 31, 2013 6:33 PM EST: Nobodyhasthisname January 31, 2013 4:02 PM EST
Crime is a daily thing. Now go home and watch another episode of your favorite soap opera.
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you might want to do something similar. Being in here all day makes you a dull boy; Reply to this comment

by AmirofLaJolla January 31, 2013 5:40 PM EST

Ah great, we became Mexico!

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by aintfakin January 31, 2013 6:32 PM EST: Texas used to be Mexico


by qyeteye January 31, 2013 4:51 PM EST: Stop reporting gun deaths.

NRA gets a bad image and that is not fair.

Stop showing returning caskets from Iraq helped Americans in out of sight out of mind realities.

NRA needs your help to stay creditable in its positions that background checks do not matter and more guns = less violence.; Reply to this comment

by erasmus111 January 31, 2013 3:48 PM EST

OMG! I'm SHOCKED!! This kind of stuff doesn't usually happen in good old America, does it??

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by ZannZelsVictoryDance January 31, 2013 4:55 PM EST: Not so much in Kaufman County - no! : /


by stevex47 January 31, 2013 3:23 PM EST: I wonder how many gun related deaths there were in the US in the 1800's or 1700's when there were less guns?

A greater percentage now?; Reply to this comment

by captainkona January 31, 2013 3:19 PM EST

@Cayeres209

There you go, make excuses for the murderer. People like you make me sick always portraying the murderer as the victim of the gun.

Aside from that.....
I normally don't care much for any legal officials in Texas, but Hasse helped break up a ring of local corruption in Kaufman Co. At the time one of the most corrupt counties in that sorry excuse for a state. Seems he was a good and honest man.

Sad.

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by sdfwef_ewer January 31, 2013 4:15 PM EST: @captainkona are you seeing a posting from Cayeres209 that I cannot?!?

Or, can you explain (without histrionics) how 'More guns More Gun Related Deaths!~' makes the murder "a victim of the gun"?


by townlaw January 31, 2013 4:25 PM EST: A good and honest man is obviously in the wrong State. As he was the only one, it was likely he would be shot.

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