This undated photo provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff's office shows assistant district attorney Mark Hasse, 57, who was fatally shot Thursday morning, Jan. 31, 2013, in Kaufman, Texas. Investigators are searching for two suspects who attacked him as he exited his vehicle in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex where he worked.
Dec 18, 2014 · Two prosecutors and the wife of one were killed in 2013. ... Williams has been charged, but not tried, in the deaths of Mike McLelland and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, 57, who was ...
Timeline Hasse murder. On January 31, 2013, Mark Hasse was shot and killed while walking in the 100 block of East Grove Street in Kaufman, Texas. Hasse was the chief assistant district attorney for the Kaufman County Criminal District Attorney's Office. He was walking from his car to the courthouse when a gunman shot him repeatedly, and then fled the area in a waiting car.
Earlier this month, Kim Williams testified that Eric Williams shot and killed prosecutor Mark Hasse in January 2013 and then District Attorney Mike McLelland and …
Eric Williams was convicted earlier this month of capital murder in the death of Cynthia McLelland, 65, the wife of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, 63, who also was killed. The couple was killed in their home on March 30, 2013.
The jury began deliberations Tuesday night after hearing testimony from Williams' estranged wife and alleged accomplice, Kim Williams. She is charged with capital murder. She testified that she drove the getaway car in Hasse's death and helped her husband dispose of weapons used in the shooting of the McLellands.
On January 31, 2013, Mark Hasse was shot and killed while walking in the 100 block of East Grove Street in Kaufman, Texas. Hasse was the chief assistant district attorney for the Kaufman County Criminal District Attorney's Office. He was walking from his car to the courthouse when a gunman shot him repeatedly, and then fled the area in a waiting car. Hasse, 57, had been an attorney for many years, and had previously served as an assistant district attorney in Dallas County under District Attorney Henry Wade. He had worked for Kaufman County since 2010 as a prosecutor, and was also a licensed police officer commissioned with the district attorney's office.
The first journalist to go inside the prisons to interview Kim and Eric Will iams, Casey conducted extensive interviews over a two-year period with both the convicted killers. During those sessions, Eric Williams denied any involvement in the killings and professed his innocence. In contrast, Kim Williams described in detail the events leading up to the murders and recounted the days of the killings. She claimed to regret her actions and acknowledged that she could have stopped her husband by contacting authorities before any of the victims died. Kim Williams filed for divorce while in prison, and it became final in January 2018.
On April 18, 2013, Eric Lyle Williams and his wife, Kim , were arrested for all three murders. Eric Williams, a former attorney and justice of the peace for Kaufman County, had been convicted of burglary and theft while in office, and had been prosecuted by McLelland and Hasse. Williams was out of jail on probation at the time of the murders.
Eric Williams was convicted of killing Cynthia McLelland, 65, while killing Mike McLelland, 63, or committing burglary. Kim Williams, 48, pleaded guilty to Hasse’s death just blocks from where the 57-year-old prosecutor was shot dead as he walked to work. hidden ad unit.
Kim Williams testified during her husband’s trial that he decided to kill the McLellands over Easter weekend because he believed there would be no law enforcement protection because of the holiday.
Jennifer Emily. Jennifer is an award-winning reporter at The Dallas Morning News . She has covered the justice system from the street to the courtroom to the execution chamber. She has also written about child criminals, growing up in prison, wrongful convictions, police shootings and the flaws of eyewitness testimony.