At about 9 p.m. Tuesday, Tom Clements, 58, was shot and killed in front of his home in Monument, Colo. Clements was the director of Colorado’s Department of Corrections. Wise County Sheriff David Walker said at a news conference that the suspect was wounded by deputies in a gun battle and was on life support and considered brain-dead at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. The chase and gun battle began with a routine traffic stop by a Montague County sheriff's deputy at the intersection of U.S. 287 and Texas 59 in Texas, the Wise County Messenger reported. A black Cadillac with Colorado license plates was involved in a shooting and chase in Texas. The suspect, who has not yet been identified, was described as a white male in his 30s. After the murder, a witness reported seeing a dark-colored vehicle matching the description of the black Cadillac that crashed and burned in Decatur late this morning at the end of a high-speed pursuit that ended with the suspect being shot. "The El Paso County Sheriff's Office has been in contact with authorities in Texas since the time they were involved in a pursuit and officer involved shooting earlier today," the sheriff's office said in a statement late Thursday.
– Colorado authorities are trying to figure out whether a man who led Texas police on a high-speed chase and shootout is the man who shot prisons chief Tom Clements, reports the Denver Post. The unidentified man is on life support and declared brain dead after being shot by police when the chase ended. His car, a black Cadillac with Colorado plates, matches the description of a vehicle spotted by Clements' house before the shooting on Tuesday night. During today's chase and shootout, the driver shot and wounded a deputy, who is in stable condition, reports the Wise County Messenger. It could be a while before police in Texas and Colorado, along with the FBI, sort things out. "Our officers are working with the FBI and the local authorities to determine whether there is a connection," says an El Paso County Sheriff's official. "The crime scene has to be processed. That takes time and we're not there yet." The chase ended when the Cadillac slammed into a tractor-trailer, but the driver still managed to get out and open fire on deputies, police say.