saw a boxy black car, possibly a lincoln or a cadillac near the crime scene just before the shooting. then two days after the shooting, a car fitting that description turned up in texas, hundreds of miles from the colorado crime scene. the driver of a black cadillac with reportedly mismatched colorado license plates opened fire on a sheriff's deputy who tried to pull him over on a routine traffic stop. during and after a 100-mile-an-hour high-speed chase. that ended in a crash with an 18 wheeler, the driver shot at the officers pursuing him. when they fired back, the shooter was seriously wounded and died later that day in a texas hospital. today, el paso county sheriff's office says after examining shell casings from both crime scenes in texas and colorado, ballistics experts concluded the gun used in the texas firefight is the same weapon used to kill colorado prisons chief tom clements.