Colorado Dept of Corrections Head Tom Clements Gunned Down on Porch

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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/prisons-chief-tom-clements-gunned-white-supremacist-gang-18809965
Did Supremacist Gang Order Hit on Prison Chief?
Officials piece together new theory of why man was gunned down at his doorway.
March 25, 2013

Video with transcript

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57576163/hundreds-honor-slain-colorado-prisons-chief-tom-clements/
Hundreds honor slain Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements
March 25, 2013

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. Corrections' officials and guards from as far away as Morocco are among the hundreds of people on Monday honoring the Colorado prisons' chief killed last week while answering his front door.
Those honoring Tom Clements at a memorial service at New Life Church include 39 current and former corrections' chiefs as well as guards from 14 states. A delegation of corrections officials from Morocco was also attending, along with dignitaries including Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Attorney John Walsh.

Matt Heard, senior pastor at Woodman Valley Chapel, said Clements was a man of worthy of honor in both life and death.

"We could not be more grateful for a life well lived," he said.

Evan Spencer Ebel, a man recently paroled in Colorado and killed in a gunfight with Texas authorities Thursday, is a suspect.

Colorado authorities say evidence gathered in Texas provided a strong lead in the case but stressed investigators had not yet confirmed a link between the crime and Ebel.
Authorities say the car Ebel had in Texas was similar to one seen not far from Clements' home the night he was killed, and bullets Ebel fired at Texas police were the same caliber and brand as the bullet or bullets that killed Clements. Ballistics tests are due sometime this week.

It remained unclear whether the 58-year-old, who worked to reduce the use of solitary confinement in Colorado's prisons, was targeted when he was shot and why.
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A private funeral was held for Clements Sunday. He is survived by a wife, Lisa Clements, a psychologist who oversees Colorado's state mental health institutes, and two daughters.

A  federal law enforcement official said Ebel had been a member of the 211s, a white supremacist prison gang in Colorado. El Paso County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jeff Kramer said Monday that investigators are trying to determine whether there was any gang involvement in the killing, but he stressed that's only one aspect of a broad investigation.

Denver police say Ebel is also a suspect in the March 17 slaying of pizza delivery man Nathan Leon.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/evan-ebel-tom-clements-murder-colorado_n_2970548.html?
Evan Ebel, Suspect In Tom Clements Murder, Was 'Not A Follower By Any Means,' Mother Says
March 28, 2013

DENVER -- From a young age, no one could tame Evan Spencer Ebel.

His parents sent him to special camps in Utah, Jamaica and Samoa for children with behavioral problems. Neighbors in the middle-class suburbs west of Denver shied away from a kid they described as "a handful."

By age 20, state prison had become Ebel's home. There, he joined a white supremacist gang and ended up in solitary confinement, a place his parents believe soon began to eat away at his already troubled mind.

On Jan. 28, when his term was up, Ebel was set free.

Two months later, he is dead after a shootout with Texas authorities and is a suspect in the death of Colorado's state prisons chief, who was gunned down when he answered the front door of his house. Investigators have said the gun used to in the Texas shootout was the same weapon used to kill Colorado's prisons chief.

Now investigators are trying to piece together whether the final actions of the 28-year-old sprung from his own ideas or came at the direction of a prison gang – an idea some close to him reject.
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On Sunday, March 17, police found the body of Nathan Leon, a father of three who worked as a Domino's deliveryman and had vanished after answering an order that day. Days later, Clements answered the doorbell at his house and was shot in the chest.

Authorities asked people to look out for a dark, late-model car that had been spotted idling outside Clements' house shortly before the shooting. Two days later, a sheriff's deputy in an empty stretch of North Texas pulled Ebel over. Ebel shot and wounded him, and sped off.

Authorities gave chase. Ebel peppered them with gunfire before crashing his 1991 Cadillac into an 18-wheeler hauling gravel near the town of Decatur.

Three deputies surrounded him, but he left his wrecked vehicle and opened fire. The deputies shot back. Ebel was hit in the head and died at a Fort Worth hospital. He had bomb-making equipment, instructions and other plans in his car, but it's not clear where he was going.

One thing was clear, said Decatur Police Chief Rex Hoskins: "He wasn't planning on being taken alive."

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http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/general/deputy-texas-district-attorney-wife-found-dead/nW77b/
Mayor: Deaths of Texas DA, wife 'not a random act'
March 31, 2013

KAUFMAN, Texas — Two months after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down, a north Texas district attorney and his wife were found killed in their home, authorities said.
The bodies of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found in their home Saturday, Kaufman County sheriff's Lt. Justin Lewis said. Authorities would not comment on a motive.
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Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot to death in a parking lot a block from his office on Jan. 31. No arrests have been made in his death
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Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told the AP on Saturday that sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway for about a month after Hasse was killed.
Aulbaugh said recently that the FBI was checking to see if Hasse's killing could be related to the March 19 killing of Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements, who was gunned down after answering the doorbell at his home.
Evan Spencer Ebel, a former Colorado inmate and white supremacist who authorities believe killed Clements and a pizza deliveryman two days earlier, was killed in a March 21 shootout with Texas deputies about 100 miles from Kaufman.
Hasse was chief of the organized crime unit when he was an assistant prosecutor in Dallas County in the 1980s, and he handled similar cases in Kaufman County.
"Anything anybody can think of, we're looking through," McLelland said after Hasse's death.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/01/ex-inmate-suspected-killing-colorado-prisons-chief-was-mistakenly-freed-4-years/
Ex-inmate suspected of killing Colorado prisons chief mistakenly freed 4 years early
April 1, 2013

A clerical error allowed the man suspected of killing Colorado's prisons chief to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday.

In 2008, Evan Spencer Ebel pleaded guilty in rural Fremont County to assaulting a prison guard. In a plea deal, Ebel was to be sentenced to up to four additional years in prison, to be served after he completed the eight-year sentence that put him behind bars in 2005, according to a statement from the 11th Judicial District.

However, the judge did not say the sentence was meant to be "consecutive," or in addition to, Ebel's current one. So the court clerk recorded it as one to be served "concurrently," or at the same time. That's the information that went to the state prisons, the statement said.

So on Jan. 28, prisons officials saw that Ebel had finished his court-ordered sentence and released him.

Two months later he was dead after a shootout with authorities in Texas. The gun he used was the same used to shoot and kill prisons chief Tom Clements two days earlier. Police believe Ebel also was involved in the death of a Domino's delivery man, Nathan Leon, in Denver.
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Corrections officials said they had not calculated precisely the number of days Ebel would have remained behind bars had the sentence been consecutive. They said they had no way of knowing the plea deal was intended to keep Ebel behind bars for years longer.

The attack that led to the plea deal took place in 2006. According to prison and court records, Ebel slipped his handcuffs while being transferred from a cell and punched a prison guard in the nose, also threatening to kill the guard's family. Ebel spent much of his time behind bars in solitary confinement and had a long record of disciplinary violations.

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Not only was Ebel mistakenly released early, he removed his tracking device.   

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/02/colorado-parolee-evan-ebel-tracking-device/2047265/
Colo. parolee slipped tracking device before slayings
April 2, 2013

Colorado parolee Evan Ebel slipped his electronic monitoring device five days before he allegedly killed the state's prisons chief and a Denver pizza driver, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Parole officers showed up at his house hours before corrections director Tom Clements was shot dead March 19, Department of Corrections documents show. An arrest warrant for violating parole was issued the next day, but Ebel was not suspected of having killed Clements and Domino's driver Nathan Leon on March 17 until after he died in a shootout with Texas authorities March 21.

AP writes that Ebel, who was a member of a white supremacist prison gang, "had been a model parolee" until authorities were alerted March 14 that the tracking device had been tampered with and was not working. It wasn't immediately clear how it was disabled.

Ebel's father had given him a job at his law firm and provided housing. March 16, two days after prison authorities received the "tamper alert," corrections officers called Ebel and told him to report so his bracelet could be repaired. He never showed up,. AP says.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57577873/2-supremacists-sought-in-colo-prisons-chief-death/
2 supremacists sought in Colo. prisons chief death
April 3, 2013

DENVER Authorities investigating the death of Colorado's prisons chief have issued an alert seeking two members of a white supremacist prison gang.
El Paso County sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer said Wednesday that deputies are seeking 47-year-old James Lohr and 31-year-old Thomas Guolee in connection with the death of Tom Clements. He says their names surfaced during the investigation and the men could be headed to Nevada or Texas.

The Denver Post reports both men are members of the white supremacist prison gang 211 Crew. That's the same gang whose members included Evan Ebel, who is suspected in the fatal shootings of Clements on March 19 and of a pizza delivery driver two days earlier.
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http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/texas/two-sought-in-colo-prison-cheif-death
Two sought in Colo. prison chief death
The two may be headed for Texas
Published April 3, 2013, Updated April 4, 2013

DENVER (AP) — Authorities investigating the death of Colorado's prisons chief are telling law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for two known associates of a white supremacist prison gang.

El Paso County sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer said an officer safety bulletin was sent out Wednesday regarding James Lohr, 47, and Thomas Guolee, 31.

Lohr and Guolee aren't being called suspects in the death of Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements, but their names have surfaced during the investigation, Kramer said. He wouldn't elaborate.

Kramer said Lohr and Guolee are known associates of the 211 Crew. That's the same gang whose members included Evan Ebel, who is suspected of fatally shooting Clements on March 19 and a pizza deliveryman two days earlier.

Ebel was killed in a shootout with Texas authorities after the deaths.

Investigators have said Ebel is the only suspect in Clements' death but haven't given a motive. But they have said they're looking into his connection to the gang he joined while in prison, and whether that was connected to the attack.

Sheriff's investigators don't know the whereabouts of Lohr and Guolee or if they are together, but Kramer said it's possible one or both of them could be headed to Nevada or Texas.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/colorado-officials-to-do-_0_n_2998314.html
Tom Clements Death: Colorado Officials To Do Review After Clerical Error That Led To Evan Ebel's Early Release From Prison
Posted April 2, 2013, Updated April 3, 2013

DENVER -- Colorado court officials have vowed to review procedures to ensure that a clerical mistake that allowed the early release of a prisoner - who then went on to allegedly shoot the state's corrections director last month - doesn't happen again.

Judicial officials acknowledged Monday that Evan Spencer Ebel's previous felony conviction was inaccurately recorded and his release in January was an error.

In 2008, Ebel pleaded guilty in rural Fremont County to assaulting a prison officer. In the plea deal, Ebel was to be sentenced to up to four additional years in prison, to be served after he completed the eight-year sentence that put him behind bars in 2005, according to a statement from Colorado's 11th Judicial District.

However, the judge didn't say the sentence was meant to be "consecutive," or in addition to, Ebel's current one. So the court clerk recorded it as one to be served "concurrently," or at the same time. That's the information that went to the state prisons, the statement said.

So on Jan. 28, prisons officials saw that Ebel had finished his court-ordered sentence and released him. They said they had no way of knowing the plea deal was intended to keep Ebel behind bars for years longer.

Two months later, Ebel was dead after a shootout with authorities in Texas. The gun he used in the March 21 gunbattle was the same one used to shoot and kill prisons chief Tom Clements two days earlier.

Police believe Ebel also was involved in the death of Nathan Leon, who was killed March 17 after heading out to deliver a pizza.
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http://www.christianpost.com/news/tom-clements-shooting-associate-of-evan-ebel-arrested-1-suspect-at-large-video-93317/
Tom Clements Shooting: Associate of Evan Ebel Arrested, 1 Suspect at Large (VIDEO)
April 5, 2013

Police have arrested a member of a known white supremacist gang in connection with the shooting of prison chief Tom Clements. James Lohr had multiple warrants out for his arrest, and police have not said whether they will charge him in connection with this crime.
Lohr is believed to have been an associate of Evan Ebel, the man allegedly behind the murder of Clements. Ebel was known for his bad temperament and was reportedly a member of the 211 Crew, a white supremacist gang. Lohr is also believed to have been in the gang, along with another man police are searching for: Thomas Guolee.
Two sources told ABC News that Lohr and Guolee were in "frequent contact" with Ebel, including up to 24 hours before Clements was shot at his home in Colorado. Both men have extensive criminal records and warrants out for their arrests; Guolee is believed to be armed and dangerous.
Police are looking into whether the death of Clements is somehow related to the assassination of Texas' District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia, as well as the murder of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse. Right now authorities are on edge that assassination attempts are on the rise and could be interconnected by white supremacist groups.
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Undated booking photo of James Lohr released by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office in Colorado

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/05/17615175-alleged-white-supremacist-arrested-in-connection-with-colorado-prison-chiefs-death?lite

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http://kdvr.com/2013/04/11/thomas-guolee-associate-of-evan-ebel-arrested/
Thomas Guolee arrested; Wanted for questioning in Tom Clements murder
Posted April 11, 2013, Updated April 12, 2013

DENVER — Thomas Guolee, a suspected member of the white supremacist 211 Crew and an associate of murder suspect Evan Ebel, has been arrested, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday evening.
Police have been seeking Guolee, 31, since last week. He and another man, James Lohr, were wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements.
“At approximately 5:30 PM, Thomas Guolee, a person of interest in the Tom Clements murder investigation was taken into custody on an active felony warrant by local authorities in Colorado Springs,” a sheriff’s office statemtn says.
He was being held without bond on a violation of parole.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57579266-504083/tom-clements-death-thomas-guolee-member-of-white-supremacist-gang-arrested-in-colo-prisons-chief-probe/
Tom Clements Death: Thomas Guolee, member of white supremacist gang, arrested in Colo. prisons chief probe
April 12, 2013

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Thomas Guolee, 31, was arrested around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, according to El Paso County sheriff's officials. He was being held without bond for a parole violation.

Investigators said Guolee isn't a suspect in the shooting death of Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements, but his name, along with 47-year-old James Lohr's, came up during the investigation. Both Guolee and Lohr were identified as fellow members of the 211 Crew.

Authorities issued an alert last week for law-enforcement officers to look out for both men, who had outstanding warrants unrelated to Clements' death.

Lohr was arrested on April 5 in Colorado Springs after a short chase and is now being held on charges including vehicular eluding. His bond was set at $250,000.

Parolee Evan Ebel is the only suspect named in the deaths of Clements, who was shot when he answered his front door on March 19, and of Nathan Leon, a father of three who was shot while working as a pizza deliveryman on March 17. Ebel later died in a shootout with Texas authorities.

Authorities haven't released details of how Guolee and Lohr came up in the investigation into Clements' death, but they believe Lohr was in contact with Ebel days before the killings.
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I've posted some of the article to give some background, but the gist of it is my bold. Al-Turki remains a person of interest in the Clements investigation.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/national/238526961.html
Judge denies bid to reduce Saudi man's sentence
January 2, 2103

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado judge on Thursday denied a Saudi man's request to return to his home country to complete his prison term for sexually abusing his Indonesian housekeeper and keeping her as a virtual slave.
Homaidan al-Turki is serving eight years to life in a state prison after being convicted in 2006 of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, false imprisonment and other counts.
The Saudi government had asked the judge to allow al-Turki to be deported to Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials promised to enforce whatever prison terms Colorado imposed.
In denying the request, Arapahoe County District Judge J. Mark Hannen said he does not have the authority under state law to reduce al-Turki's sentence to probation so he can be deported to serve out his sentence in his native country.
Al-Turki was convicted of sex offenses that are considered crimes of violence, and the law governing those crimes requires him to be incarcerated until at least the midpoint of the range of his sentence, Hannen ruled. Al-Turki is not eligible for probation for exceptional circumstances, the judge said.
 
Al-Turki, a linguist, was living in the Denver suburb of Aurora when he was indicted in 2005. He was charged with repeatedly raping the housekeeper, but the jury convicted him on a lesser charge of unlawful sexual contact.
Prosecutors allege the housekeeper spent four years cooking and cleaning for the al-Turki family while sleeping on a mattress on the basement floor and getting paid less than $2 a day. Al-Turki was accused of hiding her passport.
He denied the allegations, saying he was a victim of anti-Muslim sentiment.
The case angered Saudi authorities and prompted the U.S. State Department to send Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and al-Turki's family after al-Turki's conviction.
Al-Turki's lawyers argued he refused to participate in the sex-offender program on religious grounds because it required him to look at photos of women in bathing suits or undergarments. They also said he would have to confess to the crimes, which they say he cannot do because he is challenging his conviction.
Saudi officials said their sex-offender program would involve al-Turki's family and would incorporate religious and cultural education, which they said cannot happen in Colorado.
Al-Turki's case became enmeshed with this year's slaying of Tom Clements, the head of Colorado's prison system. Clements was shot to death at his home in March about a week after denying a request by al-Turki to be transferred to Saudi Arabia.
In October, Colorado prison officials confirmed that they had investigated al-Turki in connection with Clements' death but found nothing linking him to the crime. The officials said an assessment of al-Turki found no allegations of misconduct.
Still, prosecutors said al-Turki remains a person of interest in the Clements investigation. He was transferred in September first to a federal prison in Littleton and then to one in Tuscon, Ariz.
Investigators have yet to identify Clements' killer. But the gun used to kill him was found on a former Colorado prison inmate, Evan Spencer Ebel, who died two days after Clements' murder in a shootout with authorities in Texas.
Paul Hollenbeck, an associate director of Colorado's prisons, testified that Clements had been prepared to grant al-Turki a transfer but changed his mind after hearing from an FBI agent. Hollenbeck didn't elaborate on what the agent said or why the transfer was denied.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/25/tom-clements-death-gun-ev_n_2950903.html
Tom Clements Death: Gun Evidence Links Evan Ebel To Colorado Prison Chief Killing
March 25, 2013

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements and his wife were watching television when the doorbell rang last Tuesday night. Clements opened the door and was shot to death.

"My life was changed forever," Lisa Clements told hundreds of people, including corrections guards and officials from around the country, who gathered at a memorial service for her husband Monday.

Nearly a week after Clements' death, investigators in Colorado say the gun suspect Evan Ebel used in a shootout with authorities in Texas is the same one used to kill Clements. However, they don't know yet whether Ebel is the person who shot Clements, whether he acted alone and what motivated the slaying of a corrections' chief admired by prisoner advocates and prison guards alike. Authorities warned that could take some time.

Until investigators determine whether Ebel, paroled from Colorado's prison system, in January, acted alone, "it's hard to know what his role was," Lt. Jeff Kramer of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office told The Associated Press.

"He remains a suspect in our investigation, obviously, especially after receiving this confirmed link from Texas," he said.

No other suspects have been named.

Denver police suspect Ebel was involved in the killing of pizza deliveryman Nathan Leon. His body was found two days before Clements was killed.

Investigators also do not know whether the pizza box and Domino's Pizza shirt or jacket found in the car Ebel was driving when he was captured in Texas – similar to one spotted near Clements home – were used by the killer to persuade Clements to open the door of his home, Kramer said.

A federal law enforcement official says Ebel was a member of the 211 Crew, a white supremacist prison gang in Colorado.

Kramer said investigators are looking at who Ebel's associates were in prison and outside of prison.
 

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Correction:  The article above should be dated May 25, 2013.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/stevie-marie-vigil-arrested-gun-evan-ebel-tom-clements_n_2968429.html
Stevie Marie Vigil Arrested For Illegally Transferring Gun That Evan Spencer Ebel Allegedly Used To Kill Prisons Chief
March 27, 2013



DENVER — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation agents on Wednesday arrested a woman accused of illegally transferring the gun authorities say was used to kill Colorado's prisons chief.

Investigators believe Stevie Marie Vigil, 22, of Commerce City, legally bought the firearm from a licensed dealer in the Denver suburb of Englewood and transferred it to Evan Ebel, who was a felon who couldn't legally possess a firearm, the CBI said.

Ebel is suspected in the shooting deaths of Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements on March 19 and of Nathan Leon, who was shot March 17 while working as a pizza delivery driver in the Denver area.

Ebel died after a shootout in Texas last week. El Paso County, Colo., sheriff's investigators have said the gun Ebel used in the shootout was the same weapon used to kill Clements when he answered the front door of his home.

The identity of the Englewood firearms dealer wasn't disclosed. Authorities described the dealer as "extremely cooperative" and said the dealer had no knowledge of Vigil's alleged actions after buying the gun.

 

Records associated with her arrest have been sealed, and an El Paso County sheriff's office spokesman didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/05/james-lohr-arrested-tom-clements-murder_n_3019575.html
James Lohr Arrested In Connection To Murder Of Colorado Corrections Director Tom Clements
April 5, 2013

 

James Lohr was arrested early Friday after a brief chase in Colorado Springs.

Investigators say surveillance video showed a firearm being thrown from Lohr's vehicle before his arrest and two men spotting it and taking it. Investigators say someone who received the gun turned it in Friday night.

Authorities had said they were looking for Lohr and a fellow 211 Crew prison gang member as persons of interest in the slaying of Tom Clements.

The only named suspect is another 211 member who died after a shootout in Texas.

Lohr was arrested on warrants unrelated to Clements' death.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/lawyer-colorado-parolee-m_n_3313842.html
Tom Clements Death: Evan Ebel Forced Woman To Turn Over Gun Used To Kill Colorado's Prisons Chief, Lawyer Says
May 21, 2013

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The woman accused of providing the gun used to kill Colorado's prisons chief was forced by the "wicked" parolee Evan Ebel to turn over the weapon, her attorney said Tuesday.

"She was told to do it or else," defense attorney Normando Pacheco said after a brief court hearing where he entered a not guilty plea for Stevie Marie Anne Vigil.

Prosecutors say Vigil, 22, bought a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun on March 6 and gave it to Ebel, the sole suspect in the March 19 shooting death of state corrections chief Tom Clements.

Ebel, a convicted felon who wasn't allowed to have a gun, was killed days later in a shootout with law enforcement officers in Texas. A Texas sheriff's deputy was wounded.

Authorities also believe Ebel was involved in the shooting death of Nathan Leon, a pizza deliveryman in the Denver area, two days before Clements was killed.

Vigil is charged with illegal purchase of a gun and accused of straw buying, or helping a person who's restricted from owning a gun to obtain one. She is free on $25,000 bond, and is scheduled for a four-day trial starting Aug. 12.

 


He was known as "Ebel Evil" behind bars, and he once told a female guard "he would kill her if he ever saw her on the streets, and that he would make her beg for her life," according to the records.

Ebel spent most of his prison time in solitary confinement. He was a member of a white supremacist gang and had a swastika tattooed on his stomach and the word "Hate" on his hands.

He was convicted of several crimes in Colorado dating to 2003, including assaulting a prison guard in 2008.

He was released on parole Jan. 28 – four years early, prison officials discovered later – because of a clerical error. After his release, he slipped the monitoring ankle bracelet he was required to wear.

Clements, 58, was shot when he answered the door of his home in Monument. Investigators have not publicly discussed a motive for the shooting.

Sheriff's investigators in El Paso County, where Clements lived, say the weapon used to kill Clements was the one Ebel had when he was killed in Texas. Deputies have been investigating whether anyone besides Ebel was involved in Clements' death.

Denver police have not said whether the same gun was used to kill Leon. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez said Tuesday the Leon case remains under investigation.

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http://kdvr.com/2014/03/03/video-deputy-shot-by-evan-ebel-testifies-against-gun-buyer/
27 months in prison for woman who provided gun to Evan Ebel
March 3, 2014

DENVER — Stevie Vigil, the woman who provided a gun to murderer Evan Ebel, was sentenced to 27 months in prison Monday.
The sentence came down shortly after a Texas sheriff’s deputy, who nearly died after Ebel shot him, said that he considers Vigil a full partner in Ebel’s killing of Colorado Department of Corrections director Tom Clements and Commerce City father Nathan Leon.
Montague County Sheriff’s deputy James Boyd said Vigil knew that Ebel was a “white supremacist felon” when she gave him the gun.
“She is equally responsible,” Boyd said. “I feel she should be charged with not only my aggravated assault but the murders of the two men.”
In an incident caught on dash camera video, Ebel shot Boyd multiple times during a traffic stop last March. Boyd suffered a brain injury and has undergone multiple surgeries. He still has balance problems, he said.
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