DENVER — New video and pictures of the violent crime spree Evan Ebel went on almost a year ago were released Monday as Stevie Vigil, the woman who provided a gun to the murderer , was sentenced to 27 months in prison Monday.
The sentence came down shortly after a Texas sheriff’s deputy, who nearly died after Ebel shot him, said that he considers Vigil a full partner in Ebel’s killing of Colorado Department of Corrections director Tom Clements and Commerce City father Nathan Leon.
Montague County Sheriff’s deputy James Boyd said Vigil knew that Ebel was a “white supremacist felon” when she gave him the gun.
“She is equally responsible,” Boyd said. “I feel she should be charged with not only my aggravated assault but the murders of the two men.”
In an incident caught on dash camera video, Ebel shot Boyd multiple times during a traffic stop last March. Boyd suffered a brain injury and has undergone multiple surgeries. He still has balance problems, he said.
Prosecutors had been trying to prove that Vigil, 23, knew what Ebel was planning when she provided him with a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun last year. She pleaded guilty to one count of providing a gun to a felon.
Investigators believe that Ebel, a parolee who illegally removed his tracking bracelet, killed Leon on March 17, 2013, and used his Domino’s delivery uniform to approach the Clements home in Monument. After Ebel shot Clements, he fled to Texas, where he was eventually killed in a running gun battle with deputies there.
Ballistics evidence linked the 9mm to both the Clements and Leon killings. Texas authorities found a pizza uniform and delivery box in Ebel’s car after the shootout. Ebel also had handwritten directions to the prison chief’s house in his car.
Nathan Leon’s father, John Leon, also testified Monday, telling the court it had been “50 weeks and one day” since his son was murdered.
“The world just ended,” he said, crying on the stand. “My world ended.”
Robert Gift
Yes, she is a partner in these crimes and should go to prison.
Or was she a “prisoner of love” and gave the gun to Ebel to gain favor with her felon boyfriend?
Ann Pirie
She clearly enabled him, there is no question about that. She just might as well have pulled the trigger.
Common Cents
A White Supremacist with a Brown Woman?
dougsmith42
Talk about getting off easy for conspiracy to murder. Gotta love OUR justice system.
Rene McQuiller
To bad she only got 27 Months. She should have been charged as an accessory to 2 murders and sentenced accordingly!!!
Jason Joseph
Just goes to show that the court system is really not about preventing crime with these stupid gun laws or she would’ve been setenced to 20 years. The left wants to pass laws to restrict law abiding citizens, when they really should be stiffening the penalties for crimes like this.
Codswallop Hogwash
27 Months?
27 years would have been more like it.
What a farce!
777 (@ca5386)
She will be out in 27 months to breed more Mexicans.
Robert Gift
Doubtful. By her photo, who would want to “be” with her?
Maybe she was desperate to keep a boyfriend and went out of her way to please him by getting a gun he wanted.
Robert Gift
Would be nice to learn why such a short sentence.
Did felon boyfriend convince her that he needed it for self-defense and she innocently gave it to him for protection?
bouldernative28
So if a person drives the getaway car and someone in the robbery dies why do they get charged with murder? I think she should have been charged with murder just like a getaway driver would have been.
Robert Gift
She may truly have had no idea he would go on a killing spree.
Maybe did not know that he was a felon. She does not look too bright.
Ann Pirie
Way too light of a sentence for the crimes her crime afforded Evil Evan.