"Man in Texas shootout ID'd as Colorado parolee"

[applegrove]

Man in Texas shootout ID'd as Colorado parolee

By ANGELA K. BROWN and P. SOLOMON BANDA at AP

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/colo-corrections-dept-chief-shot-killed-home

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DECATUR, Texas (AP) — A paroled Colorado inmate who may be linked to the slaying of the state's prison chief led Texas deputies on a 100 mph car chase that ended Thursday after he crashed into a semi and then opened fire before being shot down by his pursuers.

Evan Spencer Ebel, 28, was driving a Cadillac in Texas that matched the description of the vehicle seen leaving the neighborhood where prisons chief Tom Clements was shot. Ebel was hooked up to equipment for organ harvesting and authorities say he is not expected to survive.

Colorado investigators immediately headed to Texas to determine whether Ebel was linked to Clements' slaying and the killing Sunday of Nathan Leon, a Denver pizza delivery man. Police in Colorado would only say the connection is strong but would not elaborate or say if they believe Ebel killed Clements and Leon.

The Denver Post first reported Ebel's name, and a federal law enforcement official confirmed his identity to The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

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[Melon_Lord]

1. Tragic for the prison chief...

[lunasun]

3. and the pizza delivery man. The killer made it to TX but looks like the law was hot on his trail

[Loudly]

2. Banning ex-cons from getting guns can never be as effective as

making guns less available generally, from any and all sources.

Shut down the gun trade.

[mountain grammy]

4. Nathan Leon, father of three, delivering pizzas as a second job, murdered

for his shirt. Wouldn't you open the door for a guy with a pizza box in a Domino's pizza shirt.. even to tell him he has the wrong house? A parolee with plenty of weapons.. ain't America great?

[applegrove]

5. Yeah. Hopefully the full story on how he got those guns will come out.