Emergency personnel are on the scene of a crash and shootout with police involving the driver of a black Cadillac with Colorado plates in Decatur, Texas, Thursday. The driver led police on a gunfire-filled chase through rural Montague County, crashed his car into a truck in Decatur, opened fire on authorities and was shot, officials said. Texas authorities are checking whether the Cadillac is the same car spotted near the home of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, who was shot and killed when he answered the door Tuesday night.DECATUR, Texas – The black 1991 Cadillac slammed into an 18-wheeler hauling gravel on a rural four-lane road in the North Texas prairie. Its driver, a Colorado parolee and member of a white supremacist prison gang, bailed out and opened fire on the deputies chasing him.
Evan Spencer Ebel, 28, was shot in the head and died.
From the wreckage comes a mix of clues and speculation that tie together two shocking Colorado killings and could shed new light on a third one in Texas.
Although Colorado authorities won’t confirm Ebel’s gang ties or say whether they have anything to do with the slaying of the state prisons chief, they’ve locked down prisons, where the white supremacist gang is active, and upped security on state officials.
They say both are general precautions.