“We can’t verify that”, she said.
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Police continued to clear the building after the arrest.
About 150 police officers from the city and the state police departments were sent to the scene after gun shots were reported at around 11:30 a.m. (1830 GMT). Another officer died in the incident.
The New York Police Department said it has redeployed vehicles to Planned Parenthood locations throughout the city on Friday (Nov 27) in the wake of a shooting at a clinic in Colorado, although there were no specific threats made. The campus is about 10 miles from the site of the shooting. The married father of two was once a national ice dancing champion, the Denver Post reported. It is also home to one army base, two air force bases, and an air force. Planned Parenthood told CNN it believes all its staff is safe and accounted for. Three officers were said to be injured in an earlier exchange of gunfire with the shooter. Details about their injuries were not immediately available.
Officers eventually moved in, shouted at the gunman and convinced him to surrender, police said. “They were able to shout to the suspect and make communication with him and at that point they were able to get him to surrender and he was taken into custody”, Buckley said. There’s no continuing peril to the citizens of Colorado Springs”, Suthers said after the operation, which lasted about five hours.
Terrorism against abortion clinics, and even Planned Parenthood clinics that do not provide abortions, didn’t start Friday afternoon.
The man was apparently trying to hide from the assailant, who was not far behind, Licano said.
When the gunman opened fire, terrified people fled the building and into the cold, some crying and pleading for help.
Joan Motolinia told the Associated Press that his sister, Jennifer, called him from the clinic.
At least three Planned Parenthood buildings have been vandalized since September.
“They’re hiding right behind a barricade with their shields”, Wolfe said of responding police.
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