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for you. i m john berman. it is monday, april 1st. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we re going to start in texas where at this moment there is an intense manhunt under way. the search for some person or some people targeting public officials for assassination. the latest victim, kaufman county district attorney mike mclelland. he and his wife gunned down in their home southeast of dallas. this is the same county where less than two months ago, assistant district attorney was killed as he walked to work. officials have not yet publicly linked the two killings. but this morning there is tightened security at the courthouse and that community clearly on edge. our george howell is there live from kauffman, texas, with this developing story. what s the latest? john, good morning. no new leads in this mysterious murder case. investigators are not any closer to narrowing down a suspect in this case. but we are, john, hearing from several public officials here and they say this, they believe
the courthouse there. authorities right now hesitant to declare a connection between the two cases, but as you can imagine, that is a community on edge this morning. in atlanta, educators, including a retired superintendent are expected to start turning themselves in to the county jail this morning. 35 former principals, teachers and other public school employees indicted on racketeering charges for allegedly changing students standardized test scores and then covering it up. investigators say top school officials got bonuses based on the bogus test results. remember last week, karl rove said he could imagine a republican presidential candidate supporting same-sex marriage. now, a republican lawmaker is sort of taking that a step further. senator jeff flake from arizona says he doesn t think there s any avoiding it. i think that s inevitable. there will be one, and i think he ll receive republican support, or she will, so i think that that yes, the answer is yes. and where are
he and his wife gunned down this weekend in their home, southeast of dallas. now this is the same county where less than two months ago, assistant district attorney mark hasse was shot and killed as he walked to work. this morning, as you might imagine, there is heightened security at the courthouse. that community very much on edge. our george howell is there, live from kaufman, texas, this morning with the developing story. george, authorities right now, are they linking officially these murders? john, they re not at this point. but look, it s a mysterious murder case. no new leads in the case. investigators haven t narrowed down any suspects in this mysterious murder. but we are hearing from public officials here in kaufman who say this. they say that the men worked very closely to the on the cases that they prosecuted, similar cases. they believe that this may have been a revenge hit. so that s what we re hearing from public officials here. though police, they are not officially
zoraida today. monday, april 1st, 29 minutes past the hour. a double murder on a suburban in suburban community as police on on a manhunt this morning, an entire neighborhood on edge. the district attorney and his wife found gunned down at their home in kaufman county, about 30 miles southeast of dallas. mike mclelland and his wife cynthia are the latest victims in what could be a case of a serial assassin targeting public officials just two months ago assistant district attorney mark hasse was gunned down in the middle of the day near a courthouse as he walked to work. so far police have no suspects, no motive for these murders. george howell is live in kaufman, texas, for us this morning. police haven t publicly linked these two cases. but obviously there s speculation they re connected. these two men worked together. christine, good morning. that is the case. they worked together very closely. prosecuting similar cases. and we re hearing from public officials here, in this cou