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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 […]

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, […]

(KDVR) — After a high speed chase and shoot-out with police ended with Evan Ebel’s death in Texas, documents reveal investigators discovered key pieces of evidence inside his car. Detectives found bomb-making materials and instructions, as well as surveillance equipment, and many handwritten documents — including what sources are calling a hit list. The list […]

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — A memorial service was held Wednesday for Nathan Leon, the pizza delivery driver who was shot and killed while working on Sunday, March 17. The 27-year-old from Commerce City was married and had three children. He will be remembered by friends and family at Flatirons Church in Lafayette at 11 a.m. Leon’s […]

Since his death following a wild chase and shootout with police in Decatur, Texas Evan Ebel’s friends, including one former inmate, have discussed the struggles the 28-year-old faced after leaving prison in January. Ebel is suspected of killing Colorado Departement of Corrections Director Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon in a crime […]

DENVER –Sources say the man suspected of killing Colorado Dept. of Corrections Director Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon may have had more targets. They tell FOX31 Denver that they found a hit list among all of the other items in Evan Ebel’s vehicle. He died a week ago in a wild […]

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 […]

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

DENVER — Evan Ebel, the main suspect in the murders of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements and pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, signed his name with a swastika in a letter he wrote in prison that was confiscated because it threatened guards, FOX31 Denver learned Wednesday. The letter was written to Shawna, a female pen […]

The following is the full text of a media release by the 11th Judicial District (including Chaffee, Custer, Fremont and Park Counties) regarding a clerical mistake involving Evan Spencer Ebel.     The district court, in response to media inquiry, has reviewed the record in Fremont County case number 07CR105, People of the State of Colorado […]

MONUMENT, Colo. — The Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Tom Clements, was shot in the chest in his Monument home Tuesday night and now authorities are looking for a car that was spotted near the scene. Clements was shot when he answered the door at his home on Colonial Park Drive in […]

DENVER — Since Tuesday, investigators looking into Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements’ murder have told reporters they are considering numerous angles. One is that Ebel, a former member of the 211s — a white-supremacist prison gang — might have conspired with other inmates to kill Clements, Paula Presley of the El Paso County, Colorado, sheriff’s […]