© Ian C. Bates/Staff PhotographerFBI and police worked in the middle of Blarney Stone Way on Saturday night near Forney, where Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and wife Cynthia McLelland were found dead in their home.
Kaufman County's district attorney and his wife were found slain Saturday, raising fears that their deaths may be part of a plot that included the death of one of the county's assistant district attorneys in January.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh and other officials confirmed that Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia Woodward McLelland, had been shot at their home near Forney.
Their deaths followed the Jan. 31 slaying of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse.
"It is a shock," Aulbaugh said late Saturday. "It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock. ... Until we know what happened, I really can't confirm that it's related, but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
He said that the Texas Rangers were helping with the investigation at the McLellands' home in an unincorporated part of the county but that the sheriff's department will be leading the investigation.
"Because we have to treat it as related [to the Hasse investigation], we'll be working side by side again," Aulbaugh said.
A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity described the scene at the McLellands' home as an awful scene.
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