Investigators have been interviewing members of the prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, but officials said that they have found no evidence linking the killings to the gang and that they were viewing its potential involvement as one of a number of possibilities. They have also talked to a former justice of the peace who was sentenced last April to two years probation and fined $2,500 for stealing computer monitors from a county office in 2011. Mr. McLelland and Mr. Hasse were both involved in that case.
One of the mans lawyers, David K. Sergi, said that his client had submitted to a gun residue test after Mr. Hasses killing and again on Saturday night after the shootings of the McLellands. He said that his client had nothing to do with either shooting, and he asked that the mans name be withheld out of concern for his safety.
Officials were also looking into a Facebook posting from a person who said he was a county resident named Bob Miller, who wrote on Monday that the killings were acts of revenge against the tyrannical, unjust, Pit Bull style treatment of every poor soul damned to do business in the Kaufman County courthouse. He named another prosecutor in the office, and added that he expected that that person will soon perish, bringing closure to an era of unacceptable practices and allowing Kaufman County residents to move forward with liberty and justice.
