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coughing County is a large County with a small-town feel we're over a hundred thousand in
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population but you wouldn't immediately think fat and especially great here in Coffman where you have the town square
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gonna be another nice day sunny breezy and warm with a high of 67 this afternoon I was in the tax office it was
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my first month someone in my office came to me and said ma'am I'm sure I heard shots fired back outside and then we
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went into lockdown I come to the courthouse here almost every day and as I was driving in I saw
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a person clothed all in black there was the shoving match and then he took the gun and shot
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you heard the gunshot yes how many gunshots did you hear I counted three I knew there were at least two more we had
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one of our assistant district attorneys assaulted and shot and he's deceased his
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name was Mark Hasse Kaufman County the state of Texas and especially my office has suffered a devastating loss today
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he was a he was a good guy it's a daring daylight attack very close to the courthouse square it froze everybody it
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was a huge story what was the first theory Aryan Brotherhood's white supremacist gang known as the Aryan
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Brotherhood of Texas most violent prison village members of the Aryan Brotherhood
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Mexican drug cartels it was anybody's guess mark was a prosecutor he was kind of the go-to guy in Kaufman
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the first thing that we did was look at mark Hasse's docket for that day and then we looked at previous cases and and
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so on it was you know a whodunit to that point in time I hope that the people that did this are watching we're gonna
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pull you out of whatever hole you're in we're gonna bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you
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if they found any leaves your cot anybody yet everybody's on edge here keep my doors locked and my guns loaded
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you can't believe that you know an assistant district attorney has been gunned down you know here in Kaufman
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County nobody knew who was next resources were there and we weren't making progress it was very frustrating
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and then I guess round Easter everything changed authorities tell us they are operating
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under the possibility that tonight's murders could be related to that of former assistant district attorney Mark
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Hasse it could happen once it could happen twice but I think I didn't want to believe it was true when you deal
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with bad people you know that there's always the potential for these bad people to do something bad to you