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'I told him he should wear a vest': Video shows Texas DA shopping for guns one day before he and his wife were discovered murdered in their home

Newly obtained surveillance footage shows Kaufman County, Texas, district attorney Mike McLelland shopping for guns only hours before he was assassinated. 
The footage was captured by security cameras at a Forney, Texas, gun shop at about 1:30 p.m last Friday.
The next day, both McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found murdered in their house.
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Security footage captures the DA going to look at guns only a day before he and his wife, Cynthia, were found dead
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McLelland often carried a gun but was interested in weapons for his staff

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Store owner O'Neill Kidwill said McLelland often stopped in to chat and look at guns
Store owner O'Neill Kidwill told CBS News McLelland was more worried about his coworker's safety than his own.
'I was showing him one of the revolvers,' Kidwill said. 'I asked him if he was ever in fear of his life, he said no. He was more worried about his coworkers.'
Precautions: Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson (left) now has round-the-clock security because other lawmakers including Mark Hasse (right) have been shot dead this year
Precautions: Assistant DA Mark Hasse was shot dead on January 31
McLelland asked for recommendations for guns to give his employees, who were terrified by the January murder of assistant district attorney Mark Hasse.
McLelland himself seemed calm.
'He didn't seem like anything was going to happen to him. He was invincible. He was happy,' Kidwill said. 'Everything was good in his world.'
The men talked for about 30 minutes as McLelland shopped.
Kidwill said he recommended 38-caliber revolvers and bulletproof vests for his staff. He also recommended that McLelland wear a vest himself. 
However after CBS released its interview, Kidwill took to Facebook to clarify that McLelland was a regular in the gun shop and was not there out of fear.
'Mike came in once or twice a week to be around other gun enthusiast/hobbyists because that’s what he was, and to be around good friends to swap war stories and just talk,' Kidwill wrote. 'He never talked about what he knew about his assistants murder. He was confident the killer would face justice. And we very much hope they do.I have also been misquoted by saying mike took to carrying his 38 after marks murder. Truth is mike has always carried his gun, it’s his job.'
 

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Kidwill was one of hundreds who attended the McLellands' service, along with dozens of law enforcement officers and public officials, including Texas Governor Rick Perry.
According to CNN, an affidavit on Thursday revealed further details of the investigations into the couple's deaths.
Friends reportedly found the bodies of the DA and his wife after going to their home on Saturday evening, having not heard from them in almost 24 hours. They were found with multiple gunshot wounds.
Fears: District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were gunned down at their ranch-style bungalow on Saturday
Fears: District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were gunned down at their ranch-style bungalow on Saturday
Police have requested phone records for the McLellands for the last two months to see if more can be discovered about the days leading up to the fatal attack.
At their funeral service on Thursday, Mr and Mrs McLelland shared a single, flag-draped casket inside the suburban church.
McLelland had addressed many of the same people two months earlier, after the slaying of Mark Hasse, one of his prosecutors. Hasse was gunned down near the Kaufman County courthouse while going to work.
The deaths are feared to be planned attacks by violent white supremacist gang, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
McLelland was pivotal in the prosecution of a senior member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas last year who received two life terms following a shoot out.
No arrests have been made in either case. The reward for information leading to a conviction has been doubled to $200,000.
Days after the bodies were discovered, assistant DA Jay Hileman sent a short email to the defense team today saying that he was stepping down for security reasons.
Honored: An image of Kaufman County DA Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia is unveiled beside their coffin at a memorial service in Mesquite, Texas on Thursday
Honored: An image of Kaufman County DA Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia is unveiled beside their coffin at a memorial service in Mesquite, Texas
He is being replaced by another Department of Justice prosecutor from Washington D.C. who will travel to Houston to join the high-profile case.
That individual will join attorney David Karpel from the DOJ's gang unit in prosecuting the large racketeering case, according to Dallasnews.com.
McLelland told The Associated Press shortly before his death that he was warning his employees that they needed to be more cautious as well.
'The people in my line of work are going to have to get better at it,' he said of dealing with the danger, 'because they're going to need it more in the future'.
Several people on Thursday remembered that spirit of persistence and defiance.
Standing in front of the casket, Foreman told the audience they had a responsibility not to let fear stop them from fighting to do right thing.
She said she believed her mother and stepfather had prepared her for this moment, when she and her siblings must go on without them.
'The right thing is never easy,' said Christina Foreman, one of the five children the couple shared. 'And he knew that. And he stood up anyway.'

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