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NEW: Officials say Jennifer Markovsky and Ke'Arre Marcell Stewart were killed in the shooting
Suspect Robert Dear, 57, is held without bail and set to appear in court Monday afternoon
Official says suspect expressed anti-abortion and anti-government views
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What moved a man to kill three people and wound nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado has not been disclosed. But the suspect accused of carrying out the shooting spree, Robert Lewis Dear, made remarks about “baby parts” to investigators after his surrender, a law enforcement official told CNN.
Dear surrendered Friday after a nearly six-hour standoff.
After a nearly six-hour bloody standoff that left three people dead and nine others wounded, the accused shooter dropped his gun when a SWAT team drove up in an armored police vehicle, a BearCat, and cornered him, the official said.
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Robert Dear is the suspect in the Planned Parenthood shootings.
Law enforcement officers found propane tanks in the area of Dear’s car in the parking lot and believe he was trying to shoot them to cause an explosion, the official said.
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In the absence of an announced motive, public officials in Colorado and beyond are drawing their own conclusions about the attack.
It was a “crime against women receiving health care services,” said Attorney General Loretta Lynch. She pledged the full resources of her office to investigate.
“You can certainly infer what (the motive) may have been in terms of where it took place and the manner in which it took place,” Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told CNN.
Vicki Cowart, president of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, went beyond an inference, saying the shooter “was motivated by opposition to safe and legal abortion.”
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A suspect is in custody on Friday, November 27, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Police were in a shootout with a gunman inside a Planned Parenthood facility, hours after a shooter was first reported in the area.
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People in the building across from Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs start to emerge from hiding.
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A bus of evacuees make its way towards neighboring hospitals.
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Colorado Springs Fire Department Chief Christopher Riley, center, takes questions from the media.
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An unidentified victim is transported to an ambulance.
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People are helped to safety. It was not immediately clear at the time of the attack whether Planned Parenthood was the target of the shooting.
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An officer waits at an intersection near the scene of a shooting.
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A woman is escorted to an ambulance by police near the scene.
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Police sit on the roof of a Chase Bank branch across the parking lot from the scene at Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard.
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Colorado Springs Police Lt. Catherine Buckley addresses the media during the incident. Eleven people have been transported to local hospitals, she said. Five are police officers from various responding agencies.
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Colorado Springs rescue personnel stand ready near the scene.
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People are escorted to an ambulance during the standoff.
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A police officer stands guard.
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Rescued people are escorted from the area by emergency personnel.
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The shooting, first reported around 11:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. ET), left a nearby shopping center on lockdown as police searched for the gunman.
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An officer patrols the perimeter. Denise Speller, who works at a nearby salon, said she heard at least 10 gunshots go off and saw a police officer get hit.
