I was around there visiting family for Thanksgiving. Crazy stuff. I found out yesterday about it from family. I do not watch TV. It will be interesting to see what the motive was.
No idea about motive yet.....but the shooter seems to be a whackjob...
"" Who was Robert Lewis Dear , the 57-
year-old suspect in yesterday’s Planned
Parenthood shooting in Colorado
Springs, which claimed the lives of one
University of Colorado—Colorado
Springs police officer and two
civilians?
According to police records supplied to
The Daily Beast by Lieutenant Shane
Roberts, the Public Information Officer
for the Colleton County Sheriff's Office
in South Carolina, Dear was a longtime
resident of the county with a lengthy
history of incident reports.
Roberts could not confirm that Dear
still lived in the county, and was unable
to provide the outcome of individual
incidents, but he did confirm that the
alleged gunman has been arrested twice
before, once in June 2002 for “peeping
tom” charges, and once in January 2003
for animal cruelty. As The Daily Beast
reported, Dear was found not guilty on
the animal cruelty charge, and the
peeping tom charges were dismissed.
Colleton County’s police records reveal
Dear’s history of disputes with relatives
and neighbors. In June 1997, police
responded to a domestic violence call
from Dear’s then-wife, Pam, who told
police, per the incident report, that he
“took her keys from her and locked her
out of their residence.”
“The victim then walked around the
residence to gain entry through a
window,” the report reads. “The victim
entered the residence and the suspect
then hit her and pushed her out the
window.”
Pam Dear did not file any charges but
“wanted something on record of this
incident occurring.” Police noted the
“apparent bruises” on her body, which
she says she sustained after Robert Dear
pushed her in the chest.
In September 2004, a neighbor named
Douglas Moore reported to police that
Dear had threatened him. According to
the police report, Moore said that Dear
“told him that he was going to do bodily
harm to him because the suspect
thought the victim pushed his
motorcycle over on the ground.”
“This is [an] ongoing problem between
the victim and the suspect,” the report
notes.
According to incident reports, Dear
called police several times with regards
to alleged property damage, claiming in
2004 that “three juveniles” broke a
water pipe from his well to his home
and, that same year, that “some
juveniles” from his son’s school may
have turned over his bike.
The police records also shed new light
on Dear’s animal cruelty and “peeping
tom” charges. In June 2002, Lynn
Roberts and her husband reported that
Dear, then their next-door neighbor,
“had been making unwanted
advancements to the victim [Roberts].”
“Since March 2002, he has been leering
at Ms. Roberts on a regular basis,” the
report reads, citing Roberts. “Memorial
day weekend last year, 2001, was the
first time that the Roberts noticed Mr.
Dear in the bushes by their house.”
In May of 2002, their guard dog
allegedly found Dear peering into her
house. When the dog frightened Dear,
Roberts said, he returned to his own
house. Police advised Roberts of her
legal options, and she took full
advantage of them. According to
Colleton County court records reviewed
by The Daily Beast, she obtained a
restraining order against Dear in July
2002.
The animal cruelty incident came later
that year. In November 2002, two
deputies responded to reports of a dog
being shot near Dear’s address. The dog
belonged to Moore, who two years later
would report Dear’s alleged threats of
bodily harm.
According to the police report, “his dog
was walking down the driveway when
a shot was fired from [a] residence next
to his and Douglas’s dog yelped out and
ran over to him.” The dog had been shot
with a pellet gun, and survived.
Dear told police that he did not shoot
the dog but also said, “Douglas was
lucky that it was only a pellet that hit
the dog and not a bigger round.”
In some police reports, Dear’s
occupation is listed as a “self-employed
art dealer.” The final report from South
Carolina provided to The Daily Beast
was dated April 2007.
According to the Associated Press, Dear
more recently lived in North Carolina,
spending part of his time in a cabin in
Black Mountain and the remainder in a
house in nearby Swannanoa. Colorado
Springs Police Department has also
closed off another address for the
alleged shooter in the remote town of
Hartsel, Colorado, under 70 miles from
Colorado Springs.""
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/28/alleged-planned-parenthood-shooter-robert-lewis-dear-s-history-of-trouble-with-the-law.html