The Colorado Department of Corrections wasn’t saying much Sunday about the death of Benjamin Davis, founder of the white supremacist gang authorities believe ordered death of prisons chief Tom Clements in 2013.

Davis’ death is being investigated as a suicide, but no other details were released to the Colorado Springs Gazette, including which prison Davis died in.

Clements was shot in the doorway of his Monument home by form Evan Ebel, who died in a shootout with authorities in Texas four days later. The Texas Rangers accused the leaders of the 211 Crew of ordering the hit. Ebel killed a pizza delivery man, Nathan Leon, in Golden the day before Clements death to use a pizza delivery uniform as a ruse, investigators said.

Davis founded the 211 Crew in 1995 at Denver County Jail. A possible was the transfer of top 211 Crew members from Sterling Correctional Facility to Buena Vista Correctional Complex weeks earlier.

Ebel, 28, was a member of the white-supremacist gang.  Rangers and FBI investigators allege there were hundreds of phone calls between Ebel and 211 Crew leaders in the days before and after the killings.

El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder, however, has said there is no evidence to support the Rangers’ allegations that Ebel acted under orders of Davis or others.

The Gazette reported Sunday that Davis was convicted in 1995 of robbery and first-degree assault and sentenced to 30 years. While in prison, he was convicted in 2007 of racketeering, assault, conspiracy and solicitation to commit assault and sentenced to an additional 108 years to be served consecutively

The murder put Gov. John Hickenlooper in an unusual position, as a close friend to Clements and the father of the murderer.

Hickenlooper said in the aftermath of the Clements’ death that he played no role in the Ebel’s parole two months before the attack. Ebel’s father, Jack, a Boulder lawyer, worked with Hickenlooper at an oil company when Hickenlooper was a geologist there years ago, and two had remained close.

The governor said he didn’t know the younger Ebel.

During his re-election in 2014, Hickenlooper’s toughness on crime, particularly in regards to the death penalty, was called into question.

In the final days of the race, Republican challenger Bob Beauprez included the Clements murder in a campaign video. The reference was removed after Clements widow asked Beauprez to not to politicize her husband’s death.

“While it is a legitimate issue to raise concerns about the administration’s failure to reform parole, out of respect to the spouse of a victim of parolee violence, we have removed that specific line from our ad,” the Beauprez campaign said at the time.