Law officials protected amid gang death fears

State prosecutors in Texas are being given 24-hour protection following two deadly attacks on colleagues possibly linked to white supremacist criminal gangs.

On Saturday Kaufman Country district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found shot dead in their house.

Mr McLelland, in an interview shortly after the murder of Colorado’s prison chief Tom Clemments last month, said it was possible he had been gunned down by a white supremacist gang.