Law enforcement agencies say they have found bomb-making material, letters and surveillance cameras in the car of Evan Ebel, the lead suspect police believe killed Colorado Department of Corrections Executive Director Tom Clements and pizza-delivery driver Nathan Leon earlier this month, 9News reported. Ebel was killed Thursday in north Texas after a battle with authorities that left a sheriff's deputy wounded.
He died just two days after Clements was shot to death at his home outside Colorado Springs.
Authorities have said the bullets that killed Clements came from a gun that was found with Ebel, who had handwritten directions to the prison chief's house in his car.
The new information comes from court documents reviewed Tuesday by 9Wants to Know investigators, with information by The Denver Post.
Inventory from the search of Ebel's car shows "bomb-making materials" were found along with "black powder, latent lift cards which can be used to copy a fingerprint, maps from a black backpack, documents with bomb-making instructions, documents from the Department of Corrections, handwritten directions, letters from "Nate," photographs, a mask, zip ties, a pizza-delivery bag, a pizza-delivery box, a pizza-delivery shirt, a pizza-delivery visor, a digital-voice recorder, Duct tape, surveillance cameras, a hair clip, an earring and copper and lead fragments," mydesert.com reported.
Most of the court documents concerning his case were transferred to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and the Denver Police Department. Deputy James Boyd is recovering after a bullet grazed his head and two bullets hit his bullet proof vest, when he pulled over Ebel's car, which he said looked suspicious.
"As soon as I approached the passenger's side, I stuck my head over. All I saw was a gun. At that point in time, I remember seeing the gun shoot off a number amount of times, and I could see the cartridges fly out. At which point I blacked out and had no clue whether I was standing, sitting, whatever," Boyd said.
Colorado John Hickenlooper was a long time friend of Ebel's father.
"From the beginning [Ebel] just seemed to have this bad streak," he told CNN's "State of the Union" television program. "They did everything they could. They tried. They worked with Evan again and again, but to no avail," the governor said.
Ebel was released from prison in January, after serving seven years -- three for felony menacing, robbery and assault, another four for assaulting a guard, reports said.
Police have also said there is a "strong connection" between the killings of Clements and that of Nathan Collin Leon, a pizza delivery driver who was found dead in suburban Golden, Colorado. No clear motive has emerged in either case. Investigators, however, have said they are looking into all possible angles, including Ebel's onetime membership in the 211 Crew, a white-supremacist prison gang.
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