No other details about the shooter were immediately available.
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(University of Colorado at Colorado Springs via AP).
The suspect in the shooting at a Planned Parenthood medical center in Colorado Springs has been identified as Robert Lewis Dear, 59, the according to The Denver Post.
The officer was identified as Garrett Swasey, 44. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday, authorities said.
Swasey was a six-year veteran of the department. As the standoff progressed, officers inside the building herded people into one area and evacuated others.
It was not immediately clear when the fifth officer was shot.
A police officer with the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs was among those killed in the rampage, police said.
The official said Friday the officer was with the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. The official, who had direct knowledge of the case, spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak to the media about the ongoing investigation.
Police say the gunman is in custody.
At around 5 p.m. local time, police said the gunman who had been taken into custody at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility, after almost six hours of shooting and a standoff with police.
Mayor John Suthers says he did not have any further details.
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 couple were raising a son and a daughter, the website also said.
For others, the first sign that something was wrong was when police officers appeared and ushered people to the building’s second floor.
Then Cynthia Garcia heard gunshots, but she couldn’t tell where they were coming from, Tina Garcia told The Associated Press.
Police swarming the scene pursued the assailant into the building, trading gunfire with the suspect as authorities tracked their movements from room to room by watching live video feeds from security cameras mounted inside.
Planned Parenthood released a statement that said it did not know the full circumstances or motives behind the attack, or whether the organization was the target. But the president of the Rocky Mountains chapter of Planned Parenthood, Vicki Cowart, suggested a climate of rancor surrounding abortion in the United States sets the stage for such violence.
“We don’t have any information on this individual’s mentality, or his ideas or ideology”, Buckley said.
He said he heard a lot of gunshots Friday in the background.
“She was telling me to take care of her babies because she could get killed”, Joan Motolinia said of his sister, the mother of three.
People are escorted away after a deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. I heard someone shooting.
Police entered the Planned Parenthood to rescue victims and hostages after exchanging gunfire with the suspect from the parking lot for more than an hour when they encountered more gunfire. She also said police did not know if the shooter had targeted Planned Parenthood.
Four other officers and five other civilians were wounded in the shooting, as well.
The shooter brought “several items with him” to the building inside bags, which police still needed to examine to see if they were explosive devices, Colorado Springs police spokeswoman Lt. Catherine Buckley said Friday evening.
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Buckley says she doesn’t know how many or how the civilians were injured. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday. Authorities ordered everyone in the area to take shelter where they were.
