Robert Dear, 57, allegedly shot dead three people at the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs on November 27.
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He also faces charges of assault and burglary and criminal menacing. I am a warrior for the babies”, “Protect the babies”, and “You’ll never know what I saw in that clinic.
BEN MARKUS, BYLINE: Sure.
57-year-old Robert Dear called himself a “warrior for the babies”.
In response to Gary Horton’s December 2 column in The Signal, “America must embrace responsibility over ideology”, his premise that politicians vitriolic rhetoric on abortion could have inspired Robert Lewis Dear’s killing at the Planned Parenthood is spot-on.
CORNISH: What was the reaction in court to all of this? That was before the judge granted video coverage of the hearing.
At the end of Wednesday’s hearing, the judge looked at Dear and said, “Are you finished?” And after that, he was pretty quiet.
These outbursts could be an indication of Dear’s motives for the clinic attack. A news release planned for Wednesday should fill in more details, he said. Nine more people were wounded, including five police officers.
Dear will be back in court for a status hearing in two weeks.
King told the judge “I think the problem is obvious, your honor”.
According to police, the call, placed by Fern Roberta Delise, 54, was re-routed to the Denver Planned Parenthood due to the Colorado Springs facility being closed.
“I’m not going to agree to their mental health evaluations where they want to take me and put me under psychotropic drugs, so that I can’t talk like the batman guy”, he said. There were many people milling about out front.
Suthers, who served as state attorney general and USA attorney for Colorado before he was elected mayor in May, said he didn’t know whether the gunman was targeting officers. “Could you add that to the list?”
It was a weird development in a horrific case, with Mr. Dear using his first court appearance since the deadly rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic to disrupt the proceedings.
CORNISH: And you mentioned victims’ families being in the courtroom.
He cut off his public defender frequently.
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CORNISH: That’s Colorado Public Radio’s Ben Markus.
