Posted on 11/25/2025 12:00:42 PM PST by real saxophonist
Planned Parenthood shooting suspect Robert Dear dies in custody
by: Jacob Factor
Nov 25, 2025
DENVER (KDVR) — Robert Dear, the man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic nearly ten years ago has died in federal custody.
One police officer and two civilians were killed in the shooting at the clinic on Nov. 27, 2015. Dear had been accused in the shooting and charged both federally and at the state level, though judges have repeatedly found him incompetent to stand trial.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate lookup lists Dear as deceased and a source also confirmed his death to FOX31. According to Bureau of Prisons records, Dear died on Saturday, Nov. 22, but a cause of death is not listed.
The 67-year-old was being held in federal prison.
Five other police officers and four other people were injured in the shooting, and Dear was taken into custody that day after a long standoff.
Dear has multiple times been found incompetent to stand trial, though at an initial court hearing before then, he called himself “guilty” and a “warrior for the babies.”
After Dear’s prosecution bogged down in state court because he was repeatedly found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, he was charged in federal court in 2019 under the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Federal judges also found him incompetent to stand trial for those charges as well.
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This kind of incident did damage to the pro-life cause in the decades following Roe v. Wade - but I pray all involved that man as well as the loved ones of those whose lives were lost at the clinic - have found healing and grace.
He got what was coming to him. What he did was wrong and I am glad he spent his last years in jail.
I am anti-abortion, but I did not support this.
Indeed, because "pro-LIFE" means just that. LIFE.
The man in question was clearly not driven by the spirit of God.
I believe that innocent babies should live and guilty murderers should die. This way, they can't use my words against me.
The man in question was clearly not driven by the spirit of God.
I agree. No he was not.
guy sounds psycho.
that looks like somebody just pinched his butt.
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