Target Justice - Encore
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Real people, real crimes, real life drama. Kauffman County is a large county with a small town feel. We're over a hundred thousand in population, but you wouldn't immediately think that. And especially, right here in Kauffman, where you have the town square. Gotta be another nice day. Sunny, breezy, and warm with a high of 67 this afternoon. I was in the tax office. It was 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 went into lockdown. I came to the courthouse here almost every day. And as I was driving in, I saw a person clothed all in black. There was the shoving match, and then he took the gun and shot. You heard the gun shot? Yes. How many gun shots did you hear? I counted three. I knew there were at least two more. Come on, Mark, buddy. Come on. We had one of our assistant district attorneys, assaulted and shot, and he is deceased. His name was Mark Hassy. Kauffman County, the state of Texas, and especially my office has suffered a devastating loss today. He was a good guy. It's a daring daylight attack. Very close to the courthouse square. It froze everybody. It was a huge story. What was the first theory? Aryan Brotherhood, white supremacists. A prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, or D.T., most violent prison gang. members of the Aryan Brotherhood. Mexican drug cartels. It was anybody's gas. Mark was a prosecutor. He was kind of the go-to guy in Kauffman. The first thing that we did was look at Mark Hassy's docket for that day. And then we looked at previous cases and so on. It was, you know, a hoe done it at that point in time. I hope that the people that did this are watching. We're going to pull you out of whatever hole you're in. We're going to bring you back and let the people of Kauffman County prosecute you. Have they found any leads or caught anybody here? Everybody's on edge here. Keep my doors locked and my guns loaded. You can't believe that, you know, an assistant district attorney has been gunned down, you know, here in Kauffman County. Nobody knew who was next. Resources were there, and we weren't making progress. It was very frustrating. And then, I guess, round Easter, everything changed. authorities tell us they are operating under the possibility that tonight's murders could be related to that of former assistant district attorney Mark Hassy.
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Shocking murders targeting Texas lawmen leave a community on edge.