APNewsBreak: Shooting suspect asked for directions to clinic

[niyad]

APNewsBreak: Shooting suspect asked for directions to clinic

DENVER (AP) — The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado asked at least one person in a nearby shopping center for directions to the facility before opening fire, a law enforcement official said, offering the clearest suggestion yet that he was targeting the reproductive health organization.



Colorado Springs shooting suspect, Robert Dear, right, appears via video before Judge Gilbert Martinez, with public defender Dan King, left, at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center for this first court appearance, where he was told he faces first degree murder charges in Colorado Springs, Colo. The man accused of killing multiple people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado asked at least one person in a nearby shopping center for directions to the facility before opening fire, a law enforcement official said. (Daniel Owen/The Gazette via AP, Pool)
December 08, 2015

The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Prosecutors this week plan to charge Robert Lewis Dear, 57, with murder and other crimes in the Nov. 27 attack that also left nine other people wounded. Colorado Springs police have refused to discuss a motive for the fusillade, but there's mounting evidence to suggest Dear was deeply concerned about abortion, having rambled to authorities about "no more baby parts" after his arrest.

Dear asked at least one person in the nearby shopping center where the Planned Parenthood was earlier that morning, the official said. A second law enforcement official said Dear assembled propane tanks around a vehicle and brought at least 10 guns, including rifles and handguns, to the clinic, where he swapped gunfire with officers during an hours-long standoff. It was unclear whether Dear purchased all of them, but despite brushes with the law, he had no felony convictions that would have prevented him from buying a firearm.

Planned Parenthood cited witnesses as saying the gunman was motivated by his opposition to abortion. A Colorado Springs police spokeswoman on Monday referred questions about the investigation to El Paso County Sheriff's spokeswoman Teri Frank, who said she could not comment on the ongoing investigation.

Dear had been living in remote locations without electricity or water and was known to hold survivalist ideas. One of his three ex-wives, Barbara Mescher Micheau of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, said he had vandalized a South Carolina abortion clinic at least 20 years earlier, announcing to her that he had put glue in the locks of its doors, a common protest technique among activists trying to shut down abortion clinics.

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[H2O Man]

1. Thank you for this.

Recommended.

This is the face of terrorism in the USA.

[niyad]

2. it is indeed.

[haikugal]

6. Yes it is. The terrorism that will not be named.

[suffragette]

10. Exactly so.

[ljm2002]

3. "offering the clearest suggestion yet...

..." that he was targeting the reproductive health organization".

Really? So the part where he was nattering on about baby parts, that wasn't enough of a clue?

Oh well, glad it is being acknowledged.

[niyad]

4. here in fundieville, more than a massive clue-by-four is needed.

[valerief]

5. Can anyone point me to the MSNBC video where they went through Dear's trailer

and rifled through his stuff? I must have missed that show.

[roody]

7. He was not living without water or he would be dead.

Dumbass writers.

[LuvNewcastle]

17. I think they mean running water.

Seems like I read that he didn't have any running water or electricity at his place. It is a funny mistake to make, though.

[gratuitous]

8. Oh, that could mean anything!

Maybe he knew that he wanted to shoot up something that he knew was close to the Planned Parenthood clinic, and so he asked for directions to the clinic, so that he didn't unintentionally tip off his real target. You can't draw any conclusions from that. Let's wait for the investigation to play itself out. Let's not jump to conclusions. Let's all be reasonable, shall we? Isn't reasonable just the bestest thing to be?

[niyad]

12. oh no, I intend to rub this in the faces of all those idiots on the local "news" sites who were

insisting that it was a bank robbery gone wrong, that PP was certainly not the target, and we were all just trying to cause problems.

[Myrina]

9. Kick ...

Let not forget this scumbag amidst the San Bernardino hysteria ....

[niyad]

11. believe me, I will not, since it happened just a few miles from me.

[niyad]

13. . . . .

[malaise]

14. But but but

have they declared a motive???

[niyad]

15. oh, now--let us not be hasty here.

[malaise]

18. ROFL

[Warren DeMontague]

16. So much for it being a botched robbery of the nearby Chase bank.

[malaise]

19. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

WINK!!! Now look the other at some shiny objects.

[niyad]

21. which is what all the little woman-hating gestational slavers were blathering during, and after,

his rampage--had NOTHING to do with targeting PP--was a robbery gone wrong. they are still prattling that line today.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Sorry, Christian terrorist if I've ever seen one.

But according to the MSM he's just a lone gun nut. Right.