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Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. ♪ >> reporter: the shooting of colorado's prison chief at his home allegedly by a white supremacist had given texas investigators a fresh angle in the murder of prosecutor mark hassie. >> it's another strange attack on law enforcement in a small town. >> reporter: nbc5 said that the
Three months before mark's murder, they announced that 34 gang members had been indicted for racketerring and thanked the kaufmann county d.a. office for their role in the investigation. >> people were trying to put two and two together with the arian brotherhood. >> reporter: it's one thing if it's one individual that went after mark and it's another thing if it's the arian brotherhood. >> oh, yeah, prosecutors across the state were terrified. hey, if this is the arian brotherhood, we are all targets. >> reporter: and then seven weeks later, another assault on law enforcement. it looked like ...
>> this is cell phone video of thursday's shootout. >> reporter: what grabbed the attention of investigators in the mark hassie murder is this, wise county is 100 miles from kaufmann, could he have killed another public servant in texas? seven weeks earlier? >> the fbi is now investigating this case, they want to see if ebol is connect to mark hassie's murder. >> reporter: two public officials gunned down in two states. somebody seemed to be targeting law enforcement at point blank range. coming up: as the investigation grows more urgent, sudden concerns about d.a. mike mcclell mcclelland and ...
Suspected murderer ending up in texas was especially intriguing to investigators. >> it made people if perhaps there was a connection with the hassie murder. >> reporter: they did tests on the suspect's weapon, his bullets were identical to these killed the prison chief in colorado but they found out that his gun was not the weapon that killed mark hassie and what is more -- >> ebol was deemed to not have been in kaufmann at the time that hassi he was killed. >> reporter: so eight weeks in the investigation was going nowhere. the command post was shut down. leaving just a small group to work f...