Stories Related to Little Known About Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect

For years, Robert Lewis Dear Jr. sought solitude - living in East Coast mountain cabins without electricity or in a travel trailer along the rolling prairies of South Park. A vague picture of Dear, 57, began to emerge Saturday, a day after investigators say he stormed a Planned Parenthood clinic in west Colorado Springs and shot at officers during a five-hour standoff that left three people dead and nine others wounded. Dear is being held without bond in the El Paso County jail, and his first court appearance is Monday. The suspected gunman in Friday's shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was not a protester at the clinic, said Joseph Martone Jr., one of the regulars who attends weekly prayer services Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette