Robert Dear, the individual who was charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015, has passed away while in federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced on Tuesday.
The 67‑year‑old died of natural causes on Saturday at a medical facility for federal inmates in Springfield, Missouri, according to a spokesperson named Kristie Breshears.
Dear’s case had been entangled in legal disputes over his mental health; he had repeatedly been declared incompetent to stand trial and his attorneys argued that forced medication could worsen existing health problems such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
A 2022 federal judge’s order allowing him to be medicated to be fit for trial was later upheld by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Federal prosecutors had claimed that Dear entered the clinic armed with several guns, propane tanks, and 500 rounds of ammunition, firing outside before breaching the entrance and killing the three victims.
Those who were slain were Ke’Arre Stewart, a 29‑year‑old Army veteran and father of two, and Jennifer Markovsky, a 36‑year‑old mother of two from Oahu, along with another individual who served as a campus police officer at a nearby college, Garrett Swasey, who also died.
Nine others sustained injuries during the attack. In a statement, 4th Judicial District Attorney Michael J. Allen said that “All three victims, and this community, deserved the full measure of justice in this case but they are now denied that possibility.”
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