Loner Who Killed Three in Planned Parenthood Shooting Lived in Ramshackle Cabin With No Water or Electricity
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The heavily-armed gunman who shot dead three and injured nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs lived in a cabin in the woods with no running water or electricity.
Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is suspected of killing a police officer and two civilians when he arrived at the clinic on Friday wearing a trench coat and opened fire with an assault-style rifle.
Police said that he was from North Carolina, and were looking for clues as to what exactly motivated the attack.
Neighbors of Dear from his time in rural Black Mountain said that he would often keep to himself and had a rambling manner when he talked, but that he did not openly discuss religion or abortion.
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Police have identified the gunman suspected of killing three people and injuring nine at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Above, a mugshot of Robert Dear
A cabin in the woods of North Carolina where Dear lived has no running water and no electricity. A neighbor said that the suspect mostly kept to himself
Colorado Springs police have captured the gunman after he opened fire at the clinic early Friday afternoon
The gunman was barricaded inside the family planning clinic and exchanged fire with police during a standoff that lasted for hours. He has been identified as Robert Dear
A neighbor said that Dear did not openly discuss religion or abortion with him, but a cross made of twigs was seen outside the suspect’s house on Saturday
Black Mountain resident James Russell said: ‘If you talked to him, nothing with him was very cognitive – topics all over place’.
‘You can tell his personality is just off. The way he looked at you, the way he talked, he just seemed off,’ he said.
He said that the 6ft 4ins suspect did not talk openly about religion, though on Saturday a cross made of twigs was displayed outside his house.
A neighbor of his trailer home told Buzzfeed News that the suspect once gave him anti-Obama pamphlets, saying that the president was ruining the country.
Public records from South Carolina show that he was charged with cruelty to animals for an incident where he shot a dog and charged with being a peeping tom, eavesdropping or peeping in 2002 for an incident after ‘making unwanted advancements’ towards a woman and being seen in the bushes by her house.
He was found not guilty of the first charge and the second was dismissed, though a retraining order was issued in the case.
In 1997 his wife also called police for a domestic violence evidence where she says he locked her out of their house and pushed her out a window when she entered.
She did not press charges.
He was listed as unaffiliated on a voter registration for Colorado in 2014.
Dear also had a home in Hartsel, Colorado, about an hour and 20 minutes drive from the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, the nearest major city.
The city’s mayor John Suthers said that people could make ‘inferences from where it took place’ about a possible motive behind the shooting.
A police officer and three civilians were killed. Five additional people were injured in the attack.
Suthers said authorities were able to monitor Dear’s movements in real time using security cameras inside the facility.
Source: TheDailyMail
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Re: ” lived in a cabin in the woods with no running water or electricity”
Well I’m just a big old dumb blonde broad, but… this “ramshackle cabin” is also described as a “trailer home”. It certainly looks like a trailer home on a site cut into a hillside with a covered entry way in the front, probably added as the normal side entrance would not be functional on the steep hill side. And that certainly looks like a typical mobile home park electrical connection box and electric meter mounted on the 2 posts to the right foreground. It sure looks like a mobile home park that usually have water and sewer underground to all sites
But what do I know…
What I’d like to know is how and why he went from NC to Colorado Springs.. He sure looks nuts!
I can’t answer your questions Stacey because I don’t have the answers. I also noticed those things, but accepted that the electric may not be turned on. As to the description of it as a “trailer home” it doesn’t look like any trailer home I’ve ever seen. Your question as to how he got from one place to another is a good one. I wish they would hold a press conference and tell us what happened here.