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Paroled Inmate May Be Connected to Colorado Prison Chief's Murder

by KREX News Room
by Kristina Kuestner

Story Created: Mar 21, 2013 at 11:20 PM MDT

Story Updated: Mar 21, 2013 at 11:20 PM MDT

DENVER (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.

Twenty-eight-year-old Evan Spencer Ebel 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 is hooked up to equipment for organ harvesting; 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.

The Denver Post first reported Ebel's name, and that he was in a white supremacist prison gang called the 211s. A federal law enforcement official confirmed his identity and gang affiliation 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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Told ya said on Friday, Mar 22 at 5:40 PM

Heres another example of a dirtbag that should have been fried years ago.

Fugg said on Friday, Mar 22 at 9:39 AM

Good thing we have laws prohibiting those on parole from obtaining weapons, commiting murder and fleeing across state lines.

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