Widow of Slain Colorado Prisons Chief May Testify

Associated PressPublished: March 3, 2014

DENVER, CO - MARCH 03: Katie Barnhart-Leon, right, wife of of slain pizza deliveryman Nathan Leon, with her mother, Bernadette Alness, on her side walk into federal court in Denver, March, 03 2014. The court sentenced Stevie Vigil to 27 months in prison for giving parolee Evan Ebel the gun he used to kill Colorado's prisons chief and a pizza delivery driver. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — The widow of Colorado's slain prisons director could speak publicly for the first time about her husband's death during a sentencing hearing for the woman who gave his presumed killer the murder weapon.

On Monday, a federal court judge is set to sentence 23-year-old Stevie Vigil.

Vigil pleaded guilty to buying a handgun used in the killing last year of corrections chief Tom Clements. She faces up to 10 years in prison.

Prosecutors say parolee Evan Ebel also used the gun to kill second man and wound a sheriff's deputy in Texas, where Ebel fled after Clements' death. Ebel was killed in a shootout with Texas authorities.

The judge has allowed Clements' widow, Lisa, and others to testify.

Clements was fatally shot when he answered the door of his Monument home March 19.