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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): We update the story of Texas officials shot to death recently, as law enforcement investigates possible ties between the murders and a white supremacy group.
Mourners fill the First Baptist Church of Sunnyvale, outside Dallas, Texas this afternoon to remember Kaufman County district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia. The couple was found shot to death inside their home over the weekend. Their murders came two months after the county's assistant district attorney, Mark Hasse, was shot and killed.
Before today's memorial service, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he had doubled the reward to $200,000 dollars for information leading to arrests in both cases.
GOV. RICK PERRY, R-Texas: We cannot react with fear. We got to react with resolve. And our local, state and federal authorities are pursuing every lead, exhausting every line of inquiry in a relentless pursuit of those who are responsible for these crimes.
JUDY WOODRUFF: No suspects have been identified, but some attention has turned to a state prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. On Tuesday, the assistant U.S. attorney in Houston who was to head the prosecution in a 2012 case involving 34 members of the white supremacist group stepped aside from that role. He cited security concerns, according to an attorney for one of the defendants.
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