FOXNews.com: 'DOUBLE SHOCK':Texas District Attorney, Wife Found Dead at Home

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'DOUBLE SHOCK':Texas District Attorney, Wife Found Dead at Home Mar 31st 2013, 08:58 UNDATED: This photo shows Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland.MyFoxDFW.com A North Texas district attorney and his wife were found dead Saturday at their home in the same county where an assistant district attorney was shot and killed outside a courthouse in January. The Dallas Morning News reports that Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot to death at their home outside Forney. Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh could not confirm that the deaths were related to the murder of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, the paper reported. A masked gunman shot Hasse multiple times in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex on Jan. 31. No arrests have been made in connection with Hasse's murder, according to MyFoxDFW.com. "It is a shock," Aulbaugh said late Saturday, the Dallas Morning News reported. "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 Hasse was killed. Aulbaugh said recently that the FBI was checking to see if Hasse's killing could be related to the killing of the head of Colorado's prison system, Tom Clements, who was gunned down after answering the doorbell at his home. Evan Spencer Ebel, a former Colorado inmate and white supremacist who authorities believe killed Clements, was gunned down in a March 21 shootout with Texas deputies about 100 miles from Kaufman. Aulbaugh said at the time that the investigation into whether the cases were linked was routine for attacks that appear similar. Both targeted law enforcement officials. Authorities have investigated whether Hasse's death could be linked to a white supremacist gang. Aulbaugh had said there's no indication that Hasse, 57, had been afraid he might be killed and, although the prosecutor was a licensed peace officer, officials refused to say whether he was carrying a weapon. 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, 33 miles southeast of Dallas. McLelland had said Hasse was one of 12 attorneys on his staff, all of whom handle hundreds of cases at a time. "Anything anybody can think of, we're looking through," McLelland said after the assistant prosecutor was killed. In recent years, 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. Click here for more from The Dallas Morning News. Click here for more from MyFoxDFW.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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