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otohara

(24,135 posts)
Thu Mar 21, 2013, 08:27 PM Mar 2013

Gunman was white supremacist parolee - Colorado

Tom Clements murder probe: Gunman was white supremacist parolee

A man who led Texas authorities on a wild chase and shootout on Thursday is now the focus of the investigation into the shooting death of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements and a Denver pizza delivery driver.

Federal and state authorities, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the man as Evan Spencer Ebel, 28, a parolee in the Denver metro area. The man was identified as a member of a white supremacist prison gang, the 211s.

Ebel has a criminal record dating back to 2003 including convictions for robbery, menacing, and weapons charges. In 2008 he was arrested for assault on a correctional officer

Ebel was identified as the driver of a black, four-door Cadillac with Colorado license plates that was speeding

Read more: Tom Clements murder probe: Gunman was white supremacist parolee - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22841050/tom-clements-murder-probe-man-cadillac-caught-texas#ixzz2ODwCAk6L

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Gunman was white supremacist parolee - Colorado (Original Post) otohara Mar 2013 OP
And amazingly those on the right were Smilo Mar 2013 #1
He Also Killed A Pizza Delivery otohara Mar 2013 #2
Rachel will be speaking about this shortly malaise Mar 2013 #3
Perhaps his parole was premature slackmaster Mar 2013 #4
And guns too easy to get and carry, legally or not. Hoyt Mar 2013 #6
Earlier in the case Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #5
But...but.. Fox News says it was an Arab that did it. Chipper Chat Mar 2013 #7
 

Paul E Ester

(952 posts)
5. Earlier in the case
Thu Mar 21, 2013, 09:08 PM
Mar 2013

Clements' shooting death at his Monument home occurred a week after he denied a request by the inmate, Homaidan al-Turki, to serve out the remainder of a Colorado prison sentence in his native Saudi Arabia. Clements had cited the offender's refusal to undergo sex-offender treatment.

Al-Turki, a well-known member of Denver's Muslim community, was convicted in 2006 of charges including unlawful sexual contact by use of force and sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. Prosecutors said al-Turki kept a housekeeper a virtual slave for four years in his home and sexually assaulted her. A judge reduced the sentence to eight years to life. Al-Turki insisted the case was politically motivated.

Al-Turki's conviction angered Saudi officials and prompted the U.S. State Department to send Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and al-Turki's family.

Morgan said DOC's decision to move al-Turki away from other prisoners at Limon Correctional Facility, a high-security facility, was not directly related to the Clements murder investigation.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22839606/tom-clements-update-homicide-investigators-pore-over-tips

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