ebel just got out of prison this year, making him ineligible to buy a firearm, the question was, where did he get a gun? the answer, according to investigators, this woman. they say stevie marie veheel purchased a gun from a dealer and gave it to ebel. she was in a colorado courtroom today. and in centennial colorado, how did these two even know each other? reporter: at this point, we don t know, brooke, but that s really the main question on investigators minds here. the investigators have told me this morning they don t see any connection between this woman and this prison gang, this white supremacist prison gang, the 211 that ebel was a member of while in prison. that s important, because what investigators are trying to determine, was this are a hit put out on tom clements, commissioned by this prison gang that he was a part of. they are going to work that connection, the gun connection. another thing they are investigating right now is the car.
ebel a member of the white supremacist prison gang called the 211 crew. abc news learned in the month before he died, tom clements thought the gang was too strong and to break it up he ordered members sent to different institutions. investigators are interviewing inmates to see if the gang ordered a hit on clements. in recent years, experts say ultraviolent white supremacist prison gangs like the 211 crew and the much larger aryan brotherhood, the subject of the national geographic investigation, have expanded their criminal enterprises outside the prison walls, selling drugs and running guns, all directed from behind bars. they devised all kinds of codes, so they might send out a letter that looks like a benign letter but is actually direct a hit or some kind of criminal activity. reporter: still, experts say it is extremely rare for prison gangs to kill top officials because to do so means all-out war. war may well be what the 211
too much detail. we expect tight security. the man suspected in this shooting, evan ebel, is a member of a white supremacist prison gang called the 211. investigators have been working inside the prison and outside talking to members of this gang trying to find out if there was somebody else involved, if there was a conspiracy, if someone had put out a hit on tom clements. that, of course, puts other public officials potentially in danger. they want to be sure that this is an absolutely safe event. we know top law enforcement officials including the people leading the investigations will be here at the memorial today. caught in all the middle of this is the governor of colorado. not only was he close friends with tom clements who was killed, as a pretty remarkable coincidence, close friends with the father of evan ebel. he really feels that he s kind of caught between all of this. you can hear the emotion when he talks about it. listen to him speaking to candy crowley on state of the
reporter: good morning, carol. we re learning from colorado investigators that the man who led texas authorities on a high-speed chase through the remote texas highway and into a violent gun battle on the streets of the town here in decatur, texas was a parolee from the state of colorado and has ties to a white supremacist prison gang called the 211 crew and authorities say he s now the main focus in the murder of tom clements. this is how a high-speed chase across north texas ended. a black cadillac with two different colorado license plates smashed by an 18-wheeler. but the crash didn t stop the driver from getting out of the car and firing away at law enforcement officers. colorado investigators say the driver was evan spencer ebel. he was shot and killed in the firefight. he wasn t planning on being taken alive. it was obvious he was trying to