Security cameras captured the entire confrontation between a man who was suspected of a shooting near the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo. against the police in a dramatic stand-off. The shooter is suspected of having killed three people, including a police officer, as the series of events unfolded.
The standoff lasted for hours, with the shootings occurring at 11:38 a.m. and then the suspect being arrested by 4:52 p.m. The man behind the shootings has been identified as Robert Lewis Dear, 57, who entered the Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, according to ABC News.
The suspect has been described by officials as a loner who liked to spend his time in his mountain cabin and had avoided contact with his neighbors. He was also not sided towards any political or religious belief.
"If you talked to him, nothing with him was very cognitive - topics all over place," said James Russell, who lives a few hundred feet from Dear in Black Mountain, N.C.
Three people were dead and nine were injured by the time the shooter had surrendered himself to the police. No one knows what Dear's motive was behind the shooting and if he had any connection to the Planned Parenthood Clinic, Los Angeles Times reported.
Dear appeared to look "calm, but crazy" during the series of events, according to Kentanya Craion, a witness. Authorities were able to decipher the movements of the gunman after having tapped into the building's surveillance system.
Among the dead was police officer Garrett Swasey, 44, of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs police department. He was married and had a son and a daughter, as said on the website of his church - Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs, according to NBC News.
Dear is currently being held without bail since Saturday in a Colorado Springs jail and is scheduled to appear in court at 1:30 p.m. on Monday in front of Chief Judge Gil Martinez, CNN reported.
Dear has previously also had minor brushes with the law, having been accused of domestic disputes from the mid-90s and arrested under peeping tom charges in 2002 as well as animal cruelty in 2003, according to The Daily Beast.
