3 dead, 9 injured in Colorado’s Planned Parenthood clinic gunfight

PanARMENIAN.Net - A gunman who opened fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic was arrested Friday, November 27, after engaging in gun battles with authorities during an hours-long standoff that killed three people and wounded nine others, officials said, according to the Associated Press.

A police officer with the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs was among those killed in the rampage, police said. Two civilians also died, and nine other people, including five police officers, were wounded.

A law enforcement official identified the gunman, who was in custody, as Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina.

Authorities cautioned that they do not know a motive for the attack or whether the shooter had any connection to Planned Parenthood.

"We don't have any information on this individual's mentality, or his ideas or ideology," police Lt. Catherine Buckley said. Planned Parenthood said in a statement that it did not know the full circumstances or motives behind the attack at the Colorado Springs clinic, or whether the organization was the target.