COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Nearly a week after the chief of Colorado's prisons was fatally shot at his front door, investigators have matched the gun in his slaying to one used by the prime suspect in a shootout with Texas authorities.
The weapon match was a small part of a puzzle that authorities in two states are trying to piece together after suspect Evan Ebel was killed in Texas. They have yet to determine who shot corrections chief Tom Clements or why he was killed.
And until investigators determine whether Ebel, who was recently paroled from Colorado's prison system, acted alone, "it's hard to know what his role was," Lt. Jeff Kramer of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office told The Associated Press.
"He remains a suspect in our investigation, obviously, especially after receiving this confirmed link from Texas," he said. No other suspects have been named.
As investigators in Colorado and Texas worked to find more links, if any, Clements' family and friends mourned a man who had been admired by prison advocates and guards alike.