Suspicion in Death of Texas District Attorney Shifts to White Supremacists

Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors.

The weekend deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, who were found fatally shot in their home, were especially jarring because they happened just a couple of months after one of the county's assistant district attorneys, Mark Hasse, was killed near his courthouse office.

And less than two weeks ago, Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by a white supremacist ex-convict who died in a shootout with deputies after fleeing to Texas.

The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas has been in the state's prison system since the 1980s, when it began as a white supremacist gang that protected its members and ran illegal activities, including drug distribution, according to Terry Pelz, a former Texas prison warden and expert on the gang.

The group, which has a long history of violence and retribution, is now believed to have more than 4,000 members in and out of prison who deal in a variety of criminal enterprises, including prostitution, robbery and murder.

if he was packing he didn’t unpack quick enough did he?

On Greta last night, it was revealed the wife was shot first near the front door. The husband was apparently running to the bedroom to get a gun but was gunned down on the way there.

The entire entry and murder sequence apparently happened quickly, and the DA wasn't armed for immediate action. There either was a rapid breaching of the door, the lock was bumped/picked, or maybe somebody was at the door disguised as a cop and somebody opened opened the door - either the DA (with the wife standing there) or the wife with the DA nearby.

I suppose the lesson to be learned here is if you think you are in any danger you should carry wherever you go, even within your own house. The DA apparently did not and probably thought he could retrieve his firearm quickly enough from his bedroom. Everything just happened too fast for him to react and do so.

This was a planned hit, and done professionally. Probably cartels, but maybe they hired the AB to do it?

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