police followed, the man opened fire again.

"When he came by me, he was running I'd say around 100 miles an hour, just had his left arm out the window, and he was just shooting," Decatur Police Chief Rex Hoskins said. "He wasn't planning on being taken alive."

Authorities say the suspect collided with an 18-wheeler, got out of his car and kept firing until officers shot him. Medical examiners in Tarrant County, Texas, said Ebel died Thursday afternoon.

Inside the suspect's mangled car, authorities found a pizza delivery uniform that police believe may be linked to the murder of Nathan Leon, a Domino's delivery man, Sunday in Golden, Colo.

The car in the crash had a Colorado license plate and matched at least the vague description of the car that wasseen outside Clements' home.

The deputy who made the traffic stop, Montague County, Texas, sheriff's Deputy James Boyd, was wearing a bulletproof vest and was taken to a hospital in Fort Worth. He was recovering Friday.

Sources told NBC station KUSA of Denver that Ebel had been recruited into a white supremacist gang called the 211 Crew.

Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said the gang was extremely vicious. He said it requires its members who leave prison to make money through criminal enterprises and return it to gang leaders.

He said the gang has a "blood in, blood out" ideology, meaning its members must carry out a violent attack to get in and can't get out until they themselves die.

The gang was