Texas district attorney, wife, found dead in county where prosecutor was killed
Published March 31, 2013
FoxNews.com
A North Texas county district attorney and his wife were found dead in their home two months after one of his assistants was gunned down near their office, authorities said.
Investigators found the bodies of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, on Saturday, said Kaufman County sheriff's Lt. Justin Lewis. Police, FBI agents, Texas Rangers and deputies were part of the investigation.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh could not confirm that the deaths were related to the murder of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, the Dallas Morning News reported.
A masked gunman shot Hasse multiple times in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex on Jan. 31.
No arrests have been made in connection with Hasse's murder, according to MyFoxDFW.com.
"It is a shock," Aulbaugh told the paper. "It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock and until we know what happened, I really can't confirm that it's related but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told The Associated Press 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. He said it's routine for authorities to look for possible links when there are similarities between two deaths.
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, 33 miles southeast of Dallas.
McLelland had said Hasse was one of 12 attorneys on his staff, all of whom handle hundreds of cases at a time.
"Anything anybody can think of, we're looking through," McLelland said after the assistant prosecutor was killed.
In recent years, Hasse played major roles in Kaufman County's most high-profile cases, including one in which a justice of the peace was convicted on theft and burglary charges and another in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.
McLelland graduated from the University of Texas before a 23-year career in the Army, according to the website for the district attorney's office. He later earned his law degree from the Texas Wesleyan School of Law.
He and his wife have two daughters and three sons. One son is a police officer in Dallas.
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7 comments:
They seriously need to catch these murdering bastards
Wow. Scary and sad. I wonder why they stopped guarding the d.a. and felt it was safe to do so.
My opinion only:
This smacks of drug cartel handiwork...
There has been an open assault on government and law enforcement officials/investigators in Mexico and other Latin American nations for years.
It has been known for some time now that cartels have set up in, and operated out of, remote areas and even national parks on the American side of the border.
It worries me that these assasignations are something we are going to see more of.
Yup, Light The Way.
The tides of America have changed. The filteration no longer exists. Our country is a free for all take me I'm yours for the destroying, disrespecting from the common folk to the leaders of county, state, and federal on up for whoever is running it from the past to the present. On all levels, the meaning of America is lost. America has become what everyone ran from..too many choose to not care.
America's people can't even sustain our historical sites and our national tresures....The sign of no pride.
Horrific. And respectfully off topic before John beats me to it ( with all due respect John but we all know you love ot) what the heck is going on with a Hailey remaind report. I apologize if I missed it here, the bog has come up with an August 2012 date for three days on my devices that I haven't met it a favorite. Not a word in local news.. Oh the surprise of that.
No troll on post above. Readers know I can't spell without spellcheck. Geez, get a Masters degree and still need spell check. My apologies.
Being a prosecuter in that area is very dangerous.
It sucks that this happened to these people who are doing the right thing by going after the criminals.
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