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Shell casings may tie Texas shootout gunman to killing of Colo. prison chief

Shell casings found at scene of police shootout in Texas appear to match casings from killing of Colorado’s prisons chief

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Texas — Shell casings found at the scene of a car chase and police shootout in Texas appear to match casings from the killing of Colorado’s prisons chief, adding more credence to theory that a former Colorado inmate was behind both outbreaks of deadly violence.

The gunman in the Texas shootout Thurday died later at a hospital. Police have tentatively identified him as Colorado parolee Evan Spencer Ebel, 28, though his identify still is being confirmed by fingerprint analysis.

The shootout followed a harrowing 100-mph car chase with police. The black Cadillac driven by Ebel, with Colorado license plates, matched the description of a car spotted outside Colorado Corrections director Tom Clements’ home in Monument, Colo., just before he was shot and killed while answering his front door Tuesday evening.

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