is there a feeling now among law enforcement that everyone is potentially a target? well, i don t want to say it is that widespread. this appears to be in my opinion county level. of course it seems to be the d.a. department and i know that everyone is very concerned. this is not something that has happened before in forney, texas. our county itself is relatively small, 105,000 or so people. something like this really hurts. the case of the assistant district attorney, mark hassey, that still is unsolved. soon after that took place two months ago, was there a feeling that there may be a greater potentially a greater conspiracy to target prosecutors? i don t know. i certainly didn t have that impression two months ago. i have to think now that those
confided in a friend? all of those aspects needs to be looked at. in investigations even though things look very, very obvious, okay, they re both prosecutors in the same office, for the investigators now they need to leave no stone unturned, keep an open mind in an investigation like this because what happens, if you form a theory too early during an investigation, you may be looking at leads to prove yourself right subconsciously instead of looking at every possibility under the sun that could be responsible here. forney city mayor, roselle, if you re still with us, paint a picture for us. what is kaufman county like? and when we talk about the kinds of cases that tom was describing will be scrutinized and looked at to see if there are any common denominators between the d.a. and assistant d.a., what kinds of cases are prosecuted outside dallas in kaufman county? we re a smaller county.
leading the way. first to kaufman county texas. the deaths of district attorney mike mcclellan and his wife cynthia are shaking that community. it is about 30 miles outside dallas but adding to the shock is that this comes two months after an assistant district attorney was murdered. he was gunned down in a courthouse parking lot. listen to what the sheriff had to say when asked about a potential connection. do you believe that these murders yesterday are definitively connected to the murder i can t say that. no. we have nothing indicating that for sure. a dallas morning news reporter told us her sources say they are pretty sure there is a connection. ed lavendera is live for us now in kaufman, county. what are you hearing about a connection and where the investigation goes from here?