For hours, he holed up inside the clinic, unleashing a fusillade that wounded nine others and sent shoppers scattering inside surrounding buildings during a standoff with police.
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Investigation underway… A crime scene investigator looks over one of the police vehicles damaged during the shooting near a Planned Parenthood clinic.
The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs made his first court appearance on Monday.
The extra security measures follow a terrorist attack last week at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colo. where a gunman killed three people.
If convicted, Dear could face a minimum sentence of life in prison or a maximum sentence of the death penalty. But according to one senior law enforcement official, Dear mentioned “no more baby parts” during a rambling interview with officials after he surrendered.
Standing next to Dear was Chief Deputy Public Defender Daniel King, who also represented James Holmes during the Aurora theater shooting trial.
Malloy also used his Planned Parenthood visit as an opportunity to tee off on Republican governors and presidential candidates on their stances on abortion, without naming anyone in particular. Planned Parenthood has dismissed the videos as heavily edited and misleading and has said the group does not profit off of the sales.
Here in Colorado Springs, pockets of the city were still on guard.
Court records in SC show a Peeping Tom charge against the suspect in Colorado’s Planned Parenthood shooting was dismissed in 2002 on the same day the woman who made the accusation filed a restraining order against him. The suspect in the shooting was reported to have said “No more baby parts” upon being arrested, echoing comments from politicians who have accused the women’s health care provider of profiteering from the sale of fetal tissue. “We have and will continue to condemn acts of violence, regardless of the motivations behind them”. “We have been quite anxious that this increase in threats would lead to a violent attack”, she said. In 1997, Ross told the authorities that her husband had locked her out of her home and “hit her and pushed her out the window” when she tried to climb in.
They are 29-year old Ke’Arre Stewart, 35-year-old Jennifer Markovsky and 44-year-old UCCS Officer Garret Swasey.
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Planned Parenthood emphasizes that they are not exclusively focused on reproductive health. “Planned Parenthood openly blamed abortion opponents, especially those who exposed and criticized their practices”.
