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In the space of two months Texas has been rocked by three apparently targeted killings, which have left police and the FBI hunting for suspects and local prosecutors fearing for their safety.
On 31 January Kaufman County's assistant district attorney, Mark Hasse, was shot five times in a parking lot near his courtroom office. Two months later district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found dead in their home. Reports suggested 14 shots had been fired.
The deaths have thrown a spotlight on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist group identified by one anti-racist organisation as the most violent extremist group in the US.
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas started as a prison gang in the northern part of the Texas in the 1980s, but now has over 2,000 members both in and out of jail, engaged in a wide variety of criminal activities. In November, 34 members of the ABT were indicted on federal racketeering charges. Among the agencies involved in that prosecution was Kaufman County's district attorney's office....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/aryan-brotherhood-texas-prison-gang
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