US EditionAccused Planned Parenthood Shooter Robert Dear Dies in Federal Custody
Robert Dear, charged with killing three in the 2015 Colorado Springs clinic shooting, died after years of being declared mentally incompetent and confined in a mental health facility.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons records show Robert L. Dear, 67, died in federal custody on Nov. 22, 2025 at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri after being held since Nov. 27, 2015.
- At the heart of the case, federal prosecutors say Robert L. Dear was diagnosed with a delusional disorder per records and repeatedly found incompetent to stand trial.
- Investigators report Dear arrived with four SKS rifles and additional rifles, five handguns, a shotgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition, firing 198 rounds during a five-hour standoff, killing three people and injuring nine while attempting to destroy propane tanks.
- A federal grand jury returned a 68-count indictment including 65 counts under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and the U.S. Department of Justice declined the death penalty as appeals led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to authorize involuntary medication.
- A judge ruled in September that involuntary medication did not restore Dear to competency, his last state-court appearance was on Nov. 13, and Nov. 27 marks ten years since the attack that killed three and injured nine.
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Man charged in Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting dies in federal custody
Robert Dear, the man who was charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services, has died in federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday
Gunman deemed unfit for trial in Colorado abortion clinic shooting dies in prison
DENVER (Reuters) -Robert Dear, the self-proclaimed "warrior for the babies" who was charged with killing three people and wounding nine others in a 2015 shooting spree at a Colorado abortion clinic, has died in a prison medical center. Read full story
Gunman deemed unfit for trial in Colorado abortion clinic shooting dies in prison
By Steve Gorman DENVER (Reuters) -Robert Dear, the self-proclaimed “warrior for the babies” who was charged with killing three people and wounding nine others in a 2015 shooting spree at a Colorado abortion clinic, has died in a prison medical center. Dear, 67, who the courts had repeatedly deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, died on Saturday at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, according to information po…
Man charged in Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting dies in federal custody
Robert Dear, the man who was charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services, has died in federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday.
Man charged in Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting dies in federal custody
Robert Dear, the man who was charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services, has died in federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday.
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