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DENVER — Benjamin Davis, founder of 211 Crew, a white supremacist prison gang, is dead, the Colorado Department of Corrections said Sunday. The death is being investigated as a suicide, officials said. Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements was killed by a member of the gang in 2013, the Texas Rangers found. The Rangers’ investigation found Evan Ebel killed […]

DENVER — The brazenness and brutality of the crime stunned Colorado in March 2013 when a state prison parolee, Evan Ebel, was suspected of ambushing and killing Nathan Leon, a Denver pizza deliveryman. Ebel is then believed to have used Leon’s uniform to trick Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements into opening the door of his Monument […]

DENVER — The Texas Ranger report spells it out on the first page, saying evidence shows Colorado parolee Evan Ebel “murdered” Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery man Nathan Leon.  It concludes Clements’ murder was “ordered by the hierarchy of the 211 prison gang.” All the evidence in the report […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 209 people and pardoned 64 others Tuesday as one of his final acts in the White House. “These 273 individuals learned that our nation is a forgiving nation, where hard work and a commitment to rehabilitation can lead to a second chance, and where wrongs from […]

BOSTON — Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill suffered broken ribs when the group’s tour bus stopped suddenly to avoid a pedestrian Saturday night, the band said Sunday. The rock group’s Sunday night show in Saratoga Springs, New York, is postponed, according to the announcement posted on Facebook. “The band was en route to their […]

DENVER — New video and pictures of the violent crime spree Evan Ebel went on almost a year ago were released Monday as Stevie Vigil, the woman who provided a gun to the murderer , was sentenced to 27 months in prison Monday. The sentence came down shortly after a Texas sheriff’s deputy, who nearly died after […]

DENVER — Evan Ebel, the parolee believed to have killed former Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements last year, apparently forced one of his other victims to record a statement before killing him as well. In a sentencing memorandum related to the case against Stevie Vigil, prosecutors revealed part of a statement recorded by […]

DENVER — A woman accused of providing the gun used to kill Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements will not stand trial until Dec. 16, but evidence emerged Monday that she may agree to plead guilty before then. Stevie Vigil, 22, is accused of buying the 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun that was found after […]

DENVER — The woman accused of providing the gun used to murder Colorado Department of Corrections director Tom Clements will be held without bond until her case is resolved, U.S. Magistrate Boyd N. Boland ordered Monday. Stevie Vigil, 22, is both a danger to the community and a flight risk, Boland said. The defendant is scheduled […]

DENVER — Leaders of a prison gang known as 211 Crew put out a “hit” against an El Paso county judge, sending him into hiding, as retaliation for his signing of warrants into the investigation of the murder of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements. A source familiar with the case told FOX31 Denver, Judge Jonathan […]

ARAPAHOE COUNTY — The woman accused of giving Evan Ebel, the suspect in the murder investigation of DOC director Tom Clements, is facing federal charges according to attorneys in the case. Vigil was arrested Friday morning by ATF agents during her court appearance. Prosecutors from Arapahoe County withdrew state charges against the 22-year-old after federal […]