CBS NEWS/ March 22, 2013, 11:43 AM

Colorado murder suspect dies after Texas chase

DENVER A white supremacist parolee possibly connected to the murders of the head of Colorado's Department of Corrections and a pizza delivery man has died from wounds sustained during a shootout with police in Texas, an official said.

Tarrant County Medical Examiner's spokesman Roger Metcalf said an autopsy has begun on the man, believed to be 28-year-old Evan Spencer Ebel. His identity must still be officially confirmed through fingerprint analysis, Metcalf said.

Ebel was gravely wounded after a high-speed pursuit Thursday, in which both he and a sheriff's deputy were shot. He was pronounced brain-dead and placed on life support before being removed Friday morning, CBS station KCNC reports.

Ebel, a parolee in the Denver metro area, was a member of a white-supremacist prison gang called the 211s, a.k.a. the Brotherhood of Aryan Alliance, according to KCNC. It was founded at Colorado's Denver County Jail by Benjamin Davis in 1995.

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