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coughing County is a large County with a small-town feel we're over a hundred thousand in
population but you wouldn't immediately think fat and especially great here in Coffman where you have the town square
gonna 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 come 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 gunshot yes how many gunshots did you hear I counted three I knew there were at least two more we had
one of our assistant district attorneys assaulted and shot and he's deceased his
name was Mark Hasse Kaufman County the state of Texas and especially my office has suffered a devastating loss today
he was a 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's white supremacist gang known as the Aryan
Brotherhood of Texas most violent prison village members of the Aryan Brotherhood
Mexican drug cartels it was anybody's guess mark was a prosecutor he was kind of the go-to guy in Kaufman
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
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
pull you out of whatever hole you're in we're gonna bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you
if they found any leaves your cot anybody yet 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 Kaufman
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
Hasse it could happen once it could happen twice but I think I didn't want to believe it was true when you deal
with bad people you know that there's always the potential for these bad people to do something bad to you

A Texas town on edge -- someone was killing prosecutors. Was it a gang hit or could the killer be one of their own? "48 Hours"' Richard Schlesinger investigates Saturday, Dec. 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

Brief Summary

The episode recounts the shooting of prosecutor Mark Hasse and the investigation into the crime's motives and community impact.

Key points

Tragic Shooting of Mark Hasse. Assistant district attorney Mark Hasse was shot and killed in a shocking daylight attack.
Community on Edge. The shooting has left the Kaufman community in fear and uncertainty.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It was a huge story that froze everybody.

Describing the impact of the shooting

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