that s rattled a texas county. kauffman county district attorney mike mcclellan and his wife were shot dead inside his home. a top prosecutor was also shot and killed in the county courthouse parking lot. nbc s gabe gutierrez is joining us live. gabe, just two months ago i was mentioning assistant district attorney also killed. what are investigators saying about all of this? reporter: well, that s right, richar. that assistant district attorney was shot and killed two months ago. now investigators aren t saying much about this and they are not connecting the two cases but local authorities as well as the fbi are involved after they found the body of this district attorney late last night and his wife cynthia and a friend and a relative had checked on them earlier in the day but couldn t get hold of them so that s why police went to the home. now authorities are also looking into this. as you mentioned as to whether this is connect ed to the murde of mclel land s assistant prosecutor
casings that were discovered inside the home. so it s a little bit of what we ve learned about what they re discovered at that crime scene. for the most part, investigators here are remaining very tight-lipped about what is going on. and they re not even confirming whether or not they believe these cases might be connected. the case of mike mcclellan, he and his wife gunned down yesterday, as well as mark hasse, an assistant prosecutor with the kaufman county prosecutor s office who was killed back at the end of january. almost exactly two months ago in a brazen attack as he was talking to the courthouse for work one morning. so many people, high ranking people here in the kaufman county area, believe these cases are connected. they re having a hard time believing that they can t be connected. so they re, you could tell, don, by the law enforcement presence that was at the scene very quickly last night that that seems to be the way they re reacting to it. we ve seen fbi agents assistin
two 10-year-old girls saw what happened, called 911. a texas prosecutor shot and killed in his own home almost exactly two months after his colleague was murdered outside the courthouse. no suspects, no motive. kaufman county defense attorney mike mcclellan and his wife, cynthia, were found dead in hair home last night. two months ago, mcclellan s assistant, mark hasse, was shot and killed in broad daylight outside the kaufman county courthouse. cnn s ed lavendera live now at the sheriffs department there. so, ed, we re hearing that shell casings from a semiautomatic rifle were found inside the mcclellan home. what else are you hearing now from police? reporter: yeah, they re hoping that those shell casings can at least provide some leads that they can begin tracking down. this is from a .223 caliber high-powered rifle that was found inside the house. i m told from a law enforcement source that it was several
in this investigation as well as texas rangers and the state police as well as the local law enforcement agents who have been at that crime scene for a great long while. so a great deal of attention surrounding, and authorities here say they re adding extra security to elected officials here in kaufman county, but despite that, the courthouse will be open for business tomorrow morning except for the prosecutor s office will be closed. don? hey, ed, quickly, i have to ask you something. before mark hasse was killed, he told a friend he was afraid for his life. what are you hearing about protection? tomorrow morning it s going to be open. are they beefing up protection outside the courthouse, outside of them going to work in any other way? reporter: well, we ve heard from people that there s a great deal of uncertainty and many people feeling, you know, like the chill went up their spine as they ve seen these attacks carried out. the law enforcement officials are not being specific a
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