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Clements Had Higher Profile in Days Before Death

by KREX News Room
by Jacklyn Thrapp

Story Created: Mar 21, 2013 at 7:34 AM MDT

Story Updated: Mar 21, 2013 at 7:34 AM MDT

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - Although the executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections generally kept a low profile, Tom Clements' name had been in the news in the days just before he died.

His shooting death Tuesday at his Monument home came a week after he denied a request by a Saudi national to serve out the remainder of a Colorado prison sentence in Saudi Arabia.

Clements also recently requested chemicals to execute Nathan Dunlap, convicted of killing four people during a 1993 shooting rampage at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.

And earlier this week, Clements spoke to legislators about the need for more security staff in the department's food service areas.

Last year, a kitchen worker at a state prison was killed and another was injured in an assault involving an inmate.

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Taxedpayer said on Thursday, Mar 21 at 8:59 PM

My guess is, It was probably not one of us law abiding NRA members who pulled the trigger!

wheezer said on Thursday, Mar 21 at 8:14 AM

Surely the slobbering lunatic, LaPierre is eating his powder, regarding this Good Guy going down.

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