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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 — 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 […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A public service memorializing slain corrections head Tom Clements is set for this morning in Colorado Springs. The event is expected to attract hundreds of officials and state workers, including Gov. John Hickenlooper.  Clements, broadly considered a reformer within Colorado’s prison system, was killed Tuesday night when an assailant shot him […]

(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 — 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 […]

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 — 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 […]

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 — 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, […]