KAUFMAN, Tex. — The chief prosecutor in a county just south of Dallas and his wife were found dead in their home on Saturday, two months after one of his assistant district attorneys was shot to death in a parking lot a block from his office.
Local police and sheriff's officers as well as F.B.I. agents deputies were investigating the deaths of the prosecutor, District Attorney Mike McLelland of Kaufman County, and his wife, Cynthia, said Lt. Justin Lewis of the Kaufman County Sheriff's Department.
Lieutenant Lewis said he could not discuss the investigation in further detail, including the nature of the couple's deaths and whether the authorities believe they are linked to the Jan. 31 fatal shooting of the assistant district attorney, Mark Hasse.
The Dallas Morning News reported that Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh said the McLellands had been shot in their home and that investigators were not discounting a connection to Mr. Hasse's death.
"It is a shock," Chief Aulbaugh told The Morning News. "It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock, and until we know what happened, I really can't confirm that it's related, but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway for about a month after Mr. Hasse was killed.
Chief Aulbaugh said recently that the F.B.I. was checking to see if Mr. Hasse's shooting death could be related to the killing of the head of the Colorado prison system, Tom Clements, who was gunned down after answering the doorbell at his home less than two weeks ago.
A man suspected in Mr. Clements's killing, Evan Spencer Ebel, a former Colorado inmate and white supremacist, was killed March 21 in a shootout with Texas law enforcement officials in Wise County, Texas, about 100 miles northwest of Kaufman.
Chief Aulbaugh had said there was no indication that Mr. Hasse, 57, had been afraid that he might be killed and although the prosecutor was a licensed peace officer, officials refused to say whether he was carrying a weapon.
Mr. Hasse was chief of the organized crime unit when he was an assistant prosecutor in Dallas County in the 1980s, and he handled similar cases in Kaufman County, just southeast of Dallas.
Mr. McLelland had said that Mr. Hasse was one of 12 lawyers on his staff, all of whom handle hundreds of cases at a time.
"Anything anybody can think of, we're looking through," Mr. McLelland said after Mr. Hasse was killed.
In recent years, Mr. Hasse played major roles in Kaufman County's most high-profile cases, including one in which a justice of the peace was convicted on theft and burglary charges, and another in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.
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