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DECATUR, Tex. — Sources tell FOX31 Denver that government officials continue to look into a possible connection between the arrest of Saudi national Homaidan Al-Turki as a  motive in the murder of Department of Corrections Executive Director Tom Clements. However, investigators admit they are beginning to “deprioritize” the theory. Homaidan Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 […]

DENVER — Authorities knew the ankle bracelet on parole Evan Ebel was tampered with  days before he allegedly killed pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon and state prisons chief Tom Clements, new documents show. Ebel was released from prison on January 28, 2013 and was supposed to wear an ankle monitor. According to state documents, Ebel […]

DENVER — Police say they found bomb-making materials, apparent instructions on how to make bombs, bloody clothes and paperwork from the Department of Corrections when they searched Evan Ebel’s Cadillac. He’s the man who is suspected of killing Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements and Domino’s Pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon two days before […]

DENVER — Investigators looking into the shooting death of the director of the Colorado Department of Corrections will look at the possibility that Tom Clements’ murder may be tied to the recent decision not to grant a transfer of a Saudi man in a Colorado prison. Homaidan Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 of unlawful sexual […]

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 […]

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.  — Authorities are questioning two associates of the man suspected in the killing of the state prisons director, a law enforcement source close to the investigation said Thursday. The two men, whom the source declined to identify, are in addition to James Lohr, 47, and Thomas Guolee, 31, two men the […]

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) — 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 — 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 […]

DENVER — Wednesday marked another historic and emotional day at the Colorado Capitol, where Gov. John Hickenlooper and his cabinet reacted to the murder of Dept. of Corrections chief Tom Clements before signing three landmark gun control bills alongside victims’ families and then taking questions from reporters. This reporter’s cell phone battery was dead by […]

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 — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told FOX31 Denver Monday that the looming execution of Nathan Dunlap, the Chuck E. Cheese killer, is the hardest decision he’s faced yet as governor. A district judge is set to schedule an execution date for Dunlap, who murdered four people inside an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese 20 years […]