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DENVER — The 9mm handgun Evan Ebel used to shoot a Texas police officer last week is the same weapon that killed Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements, ballistic analysts concluded Monday afternoon. The confirmation goes well beyond proving the same caliber and brand of ammunition used and all but guarantees the accuracy of […]

(CNN) — The man believed to be the one who killed Colorado’s prisons chief fantasized in a letter to a friend about torturing and killing guards at the state correctional facility where he was incarcerated. He signed it “Evil Evan Ebel.” Whether it was meant as a joke or something more sinister may never be […]

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. — One of the two suspected gang members wanted in connection with the murder of the Colorado’s Director…

DENVER — A Commerce City woman accused of giving a gun to Evan Ebel, the prime suspect in the murder investigation of DOC director Tom Clements, made her first court appearance Thursday morning. Stevie Vigil, 22, appeared in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs in Arapahoe County Court. The judge decided to keep her bond at […]

DENVER — Evidence collected after a wild high-speed chase and deadly shootout with Texas sheriff’s deputies collected from a parolee with ties to a white supremacist prison gang appear to tie him to the shooting deaths of Colorado’s prisons chief, according to a search warrant obtained by FOX31 Denver. The warrant, along with an affidavit […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Murdered Department of Corrections director Tom Clements was remembered Monday as a tireless optimist who believed that no one was beyond saving. “He lived his life believing in redemption and the ability of the human heart to be changed,” his wife, Lisa Clements said during a memorial at the New Life Church […]

DENVER — Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant killer Nathan Dunlap is set to be executed the week of August 18-24, Arapahoe District Judge William Sylvester ruled Wednesday afternoon. Now the only thing that can save the killer’s life is clemency from Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper and his staff are scheduled to meet with Dunlap’s defense […]

(CNN) — There are indications that the man believed to have killed the head of the Colorado prison system this month may have been released from prison early because of a clerical error. Evan Ebel entered the Department of Corrections in February, 2005, sentenced to three years in prison on robbery and menacing charges. In […]

DENVER — Denver Police have confirmed the man killed following a chase and shootout with deputies in Texas yesterday is also a suspect in the murder of a Denver pizza delivery driver. However, officials from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, who spoke at a press conference near Dallas on Friday, said the suspect has […]

DENVER — Sources tell FOX31 Denver a car involved in a high-speed chase and shootout in Texas may be linked to both the shooting death of Colorado DOC director Tom Clements and the slaying of a Domino’s pizza delivery driver. “We don’t know if it is or it is not connected” to the Clements slaying, […]

(CNN) — Gov. John Hickenlooper, who this week signed some of the nation’s tightest gun control measures into law, said Sunday he couldn’t fathom why the son of one of his close friends would decide to shoot his state’s prisons chief — also a friend — to death. “I felt like I was caught in […]

DENVER — Evan Spencer Ebel, the man suspected in a crime spree that included the murders of Colorado Department of Corrections head Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, was released up to four years early due to a clerical error by Fremont County courts, a review of case records has found. The 11th […]