everyone in the office was on edge. my husband, i mean, he stayed up all night with a gun in his hand. i know that i started carrying a gun. sleep with a gun under my pillow. even shannon, who wouldn t carry a gun before, now slept with protection nearby. we had a big ol shotgun sitting on our dresser ready to go just in case. the killer s threat to unleash more violence in kaufman county kept the task force working around the clock. a special team scoured the surveillance video collected near the mcclelland crime scene, hoping for a new lead. so many people now have surveillance cameras on their house. so, we re trained to go in and collect that sort of evidence. and, finally, the video team s painstaking search seemed to pay off. they found images of a car that didn t belong, a white ford crown victoria, cruising near the mcclelland home during the
victim if this person was not found. saturday night, shannon was shopping for easter dinner. when she was surprised by a phone call by her office. and i thought, my goodness who is out there on saturday, easter weekend. i m not gonna answer right now. but her phone kept ringing, it was another prosecutor from her office. and i knew then at that point, something is going on. and i answered, and she proceeded to tell me that the mclelland s were found in the house shot. must of been the biggest bombshell of your life? biggest. it s so hard to imagine anybody that you know being killed. i mean, i was frantic. it was terrifying! her colleague told her to watch her back. we do not know who s next. we do not know who s next tonight. just get home and be safe. watch out! are you feeling world targets? now we all felt that! including the people she loved most in the world. i think that was what was so
embrace the role as a leader, he enjoyed the people who worked with. he would talk about, you know, this person to this, and i was really proud of them. everything was new to him. he came in and took it over. was he tough? i wouldn t say he was tough on us at all. the greatest thing about him, he let us do will we do best. mike quickly formed a bond with mark cassie, the experienced prosecutor. mark was his best friend in the office. they were very close. mike s wife, cynthia, fit right in the office to. she was almost like a dead mother. she worked with a nurse, but found time to bake cakes and cookies for the staff. cynthia was also an avid quilter, who loved making gifts for husbands coworkers, including shannon, and then raising two young children. she would bring fabrics in and show me. she quilted it for me. it was stunning, it was very beautiful. that s how it was. a happy, humming office, in a
runway. he survived but he had very severe brain injury. did he decide to fly again, at any point? he did. why do you think you want to fly again? he almost died. it s like being thrown from a horse. he wanted to be the person he was before. and he did it? he did. but it took a long time. mark s colleagues in the da s office admired his strength to fight through adversity. they also got a kick out of his weakness, his love for sugary snacks. he had a sweet tooth. he would eat people stuff. every monday, and we will get donuts for them, and he would always get their first. in 2011, mark and shannon got a new boss, that seemed to fill right in with their office family. the newly elected district attorney, mike mclelland. my name is michael clung, the criminal district warning for kaufman county. mike stepdaughter, christina foreman, says he loved the job. i think he really did
those are gunshots, we need to go. we packed up real quick and hopped in the car. the car camera was rolling, as he and his partner drove toward the gunshots. about halfway over a man had been shot, and give us a location. we ve got a gentleman on grove street and madison that just got shot. that s just a block from the courthouse. shannon noticed that her secretary was looking out the window at some commotion on the street. my secretary turned around and she was crying. initially, i wanted to comfort. i couldn t imagine she was crying about. when she turned from the window, she said, it s mark. mark cassie, her friend and colleague. my natural instinct was that he had been hit by a car. she said no, he was shot. who is it? oh my god, it s mark hasse-y! coming up, get you another