By Aaron Kase
Lawyers.com
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A Colorado woman is facing straw-purchasing charges for supplying a gun to the man suspected of murdering the head of the state corrections department.
Stevie Marie Vigil was arrested for buying a handgun and then allegedly transferring it to Evan Ebel, who police believe used it to shoot and kill Tom Clements, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections. Ebel, 28, is also suspected of killing a Domino’s Pizza driver before he was killed himself in a shootout with police in Texas.
Ebel, who according to police was a member of the white supremacist group 211 Crew, was a felon and therefore ineligible to buy a firearm under federal law. Vigil bought the gun Mar. 6 and is accused of having given it to Ebel within the week.
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