3 killed 1 arrested November 27, 2015 Mass shooting, police killing and five-hour stand-off with police occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Three people were killed, including a University of Colorado police officer and two civilians. The suspected shooter, identified as Robert Lewis Dear, was captured alive after police convinced him to surrender. Officials offered no motive, though most anti-abortion protests have been linked to Christians, and his name is not common for any American ethnic or religious minorities. It was second mass shooting in Colorado Springs in the past month. A gunman Noah Harpham, an apparent lone wolf terrorist with no known links to terrorist groups opened fire on Halloween, killing three with no known motive.
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- Heavy Robert Lewis Dear: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
- Raw Story
- Wikipedia 2015 Colorado Springs shootings 11/28/2015
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- long gun
- police attacked / killed
- propane tank (common choice of muslim terroist)
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Robert Lewis Dear. (Colorado Springs Police)
Robert Lewis Dear, 57, has been identified as the suspect in the shooting at a Planned Parenthood medical center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, police have confirmed.
Three people, including a police officer were killed in the shooting and nine others, including five police officers, were injured. It began just before noon on Friday, while the clinic was open and in operation. The suspect was taken into custody five hours later, just before 5 p.m.
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police Officer Garrett Swasey, 44, has been identified as one of the victims killed in the shooting.
Not much is known about the accused shooter so far. Police said it is too early to speculate about a motive.
Here’s what you need to know about Dear and the shooting:
1. Dear Surrendered to Police Who Entered the Planned Parenthood Building
... Denver Post reports that he is cooperating with police and told officers he acted alone.....
The shooting started at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Centennial Boulevard, police said. Several hours after the shooting was first reported, police said they were still engaging in gunfire with the suspect.
2. He Is Originally From South Carolina & Was Charged With Animal Cruelty in 2002
Dear, pictured after he surrendered to police, is originally from South Carolina. (is from Hartsel, Colorado. According to KDVR-TV, he was previously a resident of North Carolina and is originally from South Carolina.
.... arrest record in both North and South Carolina. He has been convicted of several traffic offenses, but has been arrested several times on more serious charges.
His convictions include seat belt violations, driver’s license violations, operating a vehicle in an unsafe mechanical condition and driving a non-registered vehicle.
Dear was charged in Colleton, South Carolina, with two counts of cruelty to animals in 2002, but was found not guilty in a bench trial.
He was also charged in 2002 in Colleton with charges of “peeping Tom” and eavesdropping. Those charges were dismissed.
3. The Suspect Brought ‘Devices’ to the Scene, Police Say
Police said the suspect brought possible devices, including propane tanks, to the scene.
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4. He Was Reported to Have a ‘Long Gun’... Dispatchers said the gunman was wearing a long coat and a hunting-type hat, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. Police said the gunman is believed to have used a long gun.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, a witness saw the gunman shoot someone near the front door of the Planned Parenthood and then followed him through the parking lot and inside. The witness told the newspaper the gunman “unleashed a barrage of gunfire,” after shattering the glass front doors of the building.
“We don’t have any information on this individual’s mentality, or his ideas or ideology,” Colorado Springs Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said.
5. The Officer Killed in the Shooting Was Responding to a Call for Help
Garrett Swasey. (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police)
The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police Officer killed in the shooting, 44-year-old Garrett Swasey, responded to the scene after calls for help from other officers.
Swasey, who was married with two young children, had worked as a campus police officer for six years, the New York Times reports. He has been the co-pastor at Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs for seven years.
“Here’s a guy who worked full time as a police officer, and then gave a great amount of time to his local church and didn’t get a dime for it,” Scott Dontanville, another pastor at the church, told the Times. “He did it because it was the thing that he felt he needed to do.”
Another pastor and friend, Kurt Aichele, told the Times that Swasey was formerly a nationally ranked figure skater and ice dancer, and moved to Colorado to train.
“It’s not the first time that he’s been placed in harm’s way,” Aichele said. “He’s an absolute man of courage.”
Friday’s shooting was the second mass shooting in Colorado Springs in the past month. A gunman opened fire on Halloween, killing three. Read more about that shooting at the link below:
Noah Harpham: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Noah Harpham is reported to be be the gunman who killed three people before he was fatally shot by police in Colorado Springs, Colorado.Click here to read more
*Wikipedia
2015 Colorado Springs shootings 11/30/2015
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His full name is actually Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. His namesake was a WWII veteran and Citadel graduate who was employed by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company for 40 years. During that time the family may have relocated for business more than once, as senior's obituary noted he lived in Florida, Kentucky and Missouri before he returned to his native South Carolina for the last 15 years of his life. Senior was a joiner -- a member of the Honorary Order of Kentucky Colonels and the Citadel Brigadiers Club. Poor people don't tend to be invited into such beneficial organizations. The well-to-do are also more likely to clam up whenever a relative brings disgrace to the family name. So far I have not heard a peep from the extended family and all the names were in the easy to find obituary.
Unlike his sire, Dear Jr. is said to be a loner. He had no on-line presence anyone has found. He lived in Walterboro, SC for several years, where he was far from unknown to the local authorities because of a variety of incidents -- complaints of domestic violence, animal abuse, peeping tom. From those reports he seems to be a bit of a paranoid crank, quick to take offense at a neighbors while oblivious to when he gave offense. But he was still middle class enough to call the police to assist him from time to time. Once in SC he claimed his motorcycle was damaged by a neighbor. Another time he called in the law in a dispute with a tenant over installment payments on a truck she had purchased from him and then claimed it had disappeared when he tried to repossess it. The appliances also disappeared when the tenant moved out of the place she had rented from him. The lack of job information for a man his age plus these reports that indicate poor judgment/erratic behavior fits the pattern of a child of the upper middle class who may inherit via a spendthrift trust.
I suspect the media may quickly lose interest. He probably doesn't fit a convenient narrative for them, as he seems far more mentally ill than politically motivated. The Asheville Citizen Times, which makes the Minneapolis Star-Tribune look almost middle of the road, has found no evidence of any political motivations in Dear.
From what I have found so far, Dear looks like a pretty sad figure, the not quite right in the head child who never grew up. He apparently never got along all that well with people even before he dropped out to live off the grid. I have to wonder if his parents never stopped contributing to his upkeep and that when senior was alive junior was kept on a short enough leash to seem respectable.
In Walterboro, Dear Jr. had a wife, at least one child and a home in a day trip tourist town known for historic preservation and quaint antique stores/folk art galleries. Then in recent years his life seems to have gone off the tracks. Perhaps the combination of divorce, the death of his father and an economic environment in which those who are too difficult for other people to deal with simply won't find work was the trigger that sent him into an off the grid shack on Black Mountain.
A neighbor in North Carolina reported
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Wikipedia 2015 Colorado Springs shootings An active shooter in a Planned Parenthood facility in the American city of Colorado Springs, Colorado shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department with one officer later dying. Two civilians were also killed, and six were injured. The shooter later surrendered. (Denver Post) (Reuters) (NBC News) (CNN
Police said the suspect brought possible devices, including propane tanks, to the scene.
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4. He Was Reported to Have a ‘Long Gun’... Dispatchers said the gunman was wearing a long coat and a hunting-type hat, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. Police said the gunman is believed to have used a long gun.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, a witness saw the gunman shoot someone near the front door of the Planned Parenthood and then followed him through the parking lot and inside. The witness told the newspaper the gunman “unleashed a barrage of gunfire,” after shattering the glass front doors of the building.
“We don’t have any information on this individual’s mentality, or his ideas or ideology,” Colorado Springs Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said.
5. The Officer Killed in the Shooting Was Responding to a Call for Help
Garrett Swasey. (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police)
The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police Officer killed in the shooting, 44-year-old Garrett Swasey, responded to the scene after calls for help from other officers.
Swasey, who was married with two young children, had worked as a campus police officer for six years, the New York Times reports. He has been the co-pastor at Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs for seven years.
“Here’s a guy who worked full time as a police officer, and then gave a great amount of time to his local church and didn’t get a dime for it,” Scott Dontanville, another pastor at the church, told the Times. “He did it because it was the thing that he felt he needed to do.”
Another pastor and friend, Kurt Aichele, told the Times that Swasey was formerly a nationally ranked figure skater and ice dancer, and moved to Colorado to train.
“It’s not the first time that he’s been placed in harm’s way,” Aichele said. “He’s an absolute man of courage.”
Friday’s shooting was the second mass shooting in Colorado Springs in the past month. A gunman opened fire on Halloween, killing three. Read more about that shooting at the link below:
Noah Harpham: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Noah Harpham is reported to be be the gunman who killed three people before he was fatally shot by police in Colorado Springs, Colorado.Click here to read more
*Wikipedia
2015 Colorado Springs shootings 11/30/2015
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Planned Parenthood shootings. For the Halloween shooting, see List of shootings in Colorado#Massacres in Colorado.
On November 27, 2015, a shooting and five-hour standoff with police occurred at a Planned Parenthoodclinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[2] A police officer and two civilians were killed. Five officers and four civilians were injured.[3][4] The suspected shooter, identified as Robert Lewis Dear, was captured alive after police convinced him to surrender.[5][2] The incident drew comments from anti-abortion and abortion-rights movements.
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2015 Colorado Springs shooting Location Colorado Springs, Colorado Date November 27, 2015
c. 11:38 a.m. – 4:52 p.m. (MST) Target Planned Parenthoodclinic
Attack type
Shooting Weapons Firearm Deaths 3[1]
Non-fatal injuries
9[1]
Suspected perpetrator
Robert Lewis Dear Motive Unknown
c. 11:38 a.m. – 4:52 p.m. (MST)
Attack type
Non-fatal injuries
Suspected perpetrator
Shooting
Law enforcement responded to a report of an active shooter at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic at approximately 11:38 a.m. MST.[6]According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, the gunman first opened fire outside or near the clinic before moving inside. Staff inside the clinic moved people out of the waiting room, and locked a security door.[7] As responding officers approached the building, the suspect fired at them, hitting several. A five-hour standoff then ensued.[6][8] Initial reports described the gunman as "wearing hunting gear and armed with a long gun".[9]
At the time of the incident, twenty gunshots were reportedly fired within five minutes.[10][11] Police swarmed the area, and nearby stores were put onlockdown.[2][4]
Standoff and arrest
During the standoff, officers who made it inside the clinic reportedly shouted to communicate with a suspect, attempting to persuade him to surrender. He eventually complied, resulting in his arrest at 4:52 p.m.[1][6] Following apprehension of the suspect, law enforcement began searching the building, as well as the suspect's car, for possible explosives.[8] The suspected gunman was later identified as Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old man[5] from North Carolina.[12] According to an unnamed senior law enforcement official, Dear gave a "rambling" interview after his arrest[13] in which at one point he said, "No more baby parts",[14] widely seen as a reference to the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy.[15][16][17][18][19] The official added that Dear "said a lot of things" in that interview, including that he has anti-abortion and anti-government views,[20] but beyond stating that it was "definitely politically motivated," authorities could not yet clearly specify a motive, as investigators were still processing evidence.[13][20][21]
Victims
Officer Garrett Swasey, 44, was a married father of two young children. Before joining the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs police force, he was a nationally ranked junior figure skater and ice dancer.[22] Ke'Arre M. Stewart, an Iraq War veteran, was married with a child.[23] Jennifer Markovsky was the mother of a son and daughter.[24] Nine other victims, comprising five police officers and four civilians, were also reportedly shot. They were admitted to local area hospitals and listed in good condition.[1][25][26]
Suspect
Robert Lewis Dear Jr., 57 at the time of his arrest, was born in South Carolina and spent most of his life in the Carolinas before moving to Hartsel, Colorado in 2014, where he lived in a travel trailer. Working as an independent art dealer, he lived in a succession of trailers and cabins before moving to Colorado.[13][27] Police, citing an "active investigation," said that the warrants related to the case against Dear have been sealed, and that they will not yet provide information about why Dear started the shooting, the weapon used by Dear, Dear's motive, or a timeline of events.[28]
Aftermath
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were called on to assist in the investigation and President Barack Obama was briefed on the incident.[8][25] As a precautionary response to the shooting, additional law enforcement were assigned to Planned Parenthood clinics in New York City and Denver.[29]
Reactions
Vicki Cowart, President of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains decried the incident as a form of domestic terrorism while assuring that Planned Parenthood would continue in "providing care in a safe, supportive environment that millions of people rely on and trust."[30] While the shooting was still active, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger demanded that Cowart apologize if the perpetrator wasn't anti-abortion.[31]
Attorney General of the United States Loretta Lynch called the shooting "...not only a crime against the Colorado Springs community, but a crime against women receiving healthcare services at Planned Parenthood, law enforcement seeking to protect and serve, and other innocent people."[32][33] President of the United States Barack Obama released a statement on November 28, 2015 that stressed stricter gun control legislation.[34]
Some U.S. politicians and activist groups have described the shooting as domestic terrorism. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said it "certainly appears" the shooting and standoff was an act of domestic terrorism.[35] In statements following the incident, one of the current Republican candidates for president, Mike Huckabee, as well as the Texas pro-choice organization, NARAL Pro-Choice, referred to the shooting as "domestic terrorism".[36][37]Colorado governor John Hickenlooper said the shooting, which he described as "a form of terrorism" and other violent incidents. may be the result of the "inflammatory rhetoric we see on all levels", referring to heated debate over abortion in the U.S.[38]
Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation drew particular attention to the undercover Planned Parenthood videos, two of which were shot at a clinic in Denver, 75 miles north of Colorado Springs; these videos resulted in a number of threats against one doctor featured in the videos.[39]
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Interesting family background of the Colorado Springs shooter
Many outlets have been saying the Colorado Springs shooter was from Western North Carolina, where I live. Since I have been active in the local prolife community, this bothered me. So I did a little snooping on-line.
I found that Dear does own property in Buncombe County (Asheville) though he lists his address on the property records for both parcels as South Carolina. The properties are low end. He also appears to have a residence in unincorporated Hartsel, Colorado and was registered to vote there as an unaffiliated voter. I'd say that makes him a Colorado resident. He never registered to vote in North Carolina.
Since Dear doesn't seem to have held a regular job, one has to wonder how he paid his bills. Property taxes are probably low on those two parcels, but it still takes ready cash. The family is from South Carolina. I have to wonder if the tax bills go to a relative or trustee there. From a professional point of view, he seems to me like the type of person whose inheritance might be put in a spendthrift trust. And I do suspect there might be some money in his family. One report says Dear listed his occupation as a "self employed art dealer." That's not usually an occupation for someone with middle or working class roots.
I found that Dear does own property in Buncombe County (Asheville) though he lists his address on the property records for both parcels as South Carolina. The properties are low end. He also appears to have a residence in unincorporated Hartsel, Colorado and was registered to vote there as an unaffiliated voter. I'd say that makes him a Colorado resident. He never registered to vote in North Carolina.
Since Dear doesn't seem to have held a regular job, one has to wonder how he paid his bills. Property taxes are probably low on those two parcels, but it still takes ready cash. The family is from South Carolina. I have to wonder if the tax bills go to a relative or trustee there. From a professional point of view, he seems to me like the type of person whose inheritance might be put in a spendthrift trust. And I do suspect there might be some money in his family. One report says Dear listed his occupation as a "self employed art dealer." That's not usually an occupation for someone with middle or working class roots.
Unlike his sire, Dear Jr. is said to be a loner. He had no on-line presence anyone has found. He lived in Walterboro, SC for several years, where he was far from unknown to the local authorities because of a variety of incidents -- complaints of domestic violence, animal abuse, peeping tom. From those reports he seems to be a bit of a paranoid crank, quick to take offense at a neighbors while oblivious to when he gave offense. But he was still middle class enough to call the police to assist him from time to time. Once in SC he claimed his motorcycle was damaged by a neighbor. Another time he called in the law in a dispute with a tenant over installment payments on a truck she had purchased from him and then claimed it had disappeared when he tried to repossess it. The appliances also disappeared when the tenant moved out of the place she had rented from him. The lack of job information for a man his age plus these reports that indicate poor judgment/erratic behavior fits the pattern of a child of the upper middle class who may inherit via a spendthrift trust.
I suspect the media may quickly lose interest. He probably doesn't fit a convenient narrative for them, as he seems far more mentally ill than politically motivated. The Asheville Citizen Times, which makes the Minneapolis Star-Tribune look almost middle of the road, has found no evidence of any political motivations in Dear.
From what I have found so far, Dear looks like a pretty sad figure, the not quite right in the head child who never grew up. He apparently never got along all that well with people even before he dropped out to live off the grid. I have to wonder if his parents never stopped contributing to his upkeep and that when senior was alive junior was kept on a short enough leash to seem respectable.
In Walterboro, Dear Jr. had a wife, at least one child and a home in a day trip tourist town known for historic preservation and quaint antique stores/folk art galleries. Then in recent years his life seems to have gone off the tracks. Perhaps the combination of divorce, the death of his father and an economic environment in which those who are too difficult for other people to deal with simply won't find work was the trigger that sent him into an off the grid shack on Black Mountain.
A neighbor in North Carolina reported
You can tell his personality is just off. The way he looked at you, the way he talked, he just seemed off,” said James Russell, who lives a few hundred feet down the mountain. “If you talked to him, nothing with him was very cognitive — topics all over place.”There is no information so far on why Dear, Jr. moved to Colorado after apparently spending so many years in the Carolinas. It would be funny if legalized pot has something to do with it. He does look like quite a few of the badly aging hippies, many of them scions of respectable, affluent families, who get drawn to low cost of living communities in areas around towns like Asheville or Colorado Springs.
Many outlets have been saying the Colorado Springs shooter was from Western North Carolina, where I live. Since I have been active in the local prolife community, this bothered me. So I did a little snooping on-line.
I found that Dear does own property in Buncombe County (Asheville) though he lists his address on the property records for both parcels as South Carolina. The properties are low end. He also appears to have a residence in unincorporated Hartsel, Colorado and was registered to vote there as an unaffiliated voter. I'd say that makes him a Colorado resident. He never registered to vote in North Carolina.
I found that Dear does own property in Buncombe County (Asheville) though he lists his address on the property records for both parcels as South Carolina. The properties are low end. He also appears to have a residence in unincorporated Hartsel, Colorado and was registered to vote there as an unaffiliated voter. I'd say that makes him a Colorado resident. He never registered to vote in North Carolina.
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Wikipedia 2015 Colorado Springs shootings An active shooter in a Planned Parenthood facility in the American city of Colorado Springs, Colorado shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department with one officer later dying. Two civilians were also killed, and six were injured. The shooter later surrendered. (Denver Post) (Reuters) (NBC News) (CNN
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