Denver Post: White supremacist prison gang planned Clements murder

The Denver Post has uncovered new information about the 2013 murder of the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections.

The newspaper reported Friday that it has obtained documents from the Texas Rangers that say that Tom Clements’ murder was planned and executed by a white supremacist prison gang called the 211 Crew.

It has long been known that the man who is believed to have killed Clements, Evan Ebel, was associated with the gang. Ebel died in a shootout after a police chase in Wise County, Texas following Clements’ murder.

Clements was killed at his home in northern El Paso County on March 19, 2013.

Investigators believe that Evan Ebel murdered Denver-area pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon for his uniform, which he used to get Clements to open the front door by posing as a pizza deliveryman. Clements was shot in the chest.

According to the Post , the Texas Rangers report says that a man named James “Jimbo” Lohr, ordered Ebel to kill Tom Clements to get back into the good graces of the gang’s founder after the two had a falling out. Notably, the newspaper’s report says that according to the documents, Lohr is the 211 Crew’s ranking leader in Colorado Springs.

The report also says that following Ebel’s death, a galvanized steel pipe bomb was found in the car he was driving. It says that on the pipe bomb investigators found DNA related to a Colorado Springs murder that was never made public.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is the lead agency on the investigation.

Stevie Vigil is the only person who has faced charges. She was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to buying the gun that was used to kill Clements.

Click here to read the entire Denver Post report, which details how Texas Rangers say other 211 Crew members helped Ebel pull off the killing and escape the state.