Colorado Shooter Confesses in Court

Dear also repeatedly interrupted his public defender, Daniel King, and objected to King’s attempts to limit publicity in the case.

Despite Dear’s efforts to speed things up the judge ruled against him, which allowed the defense team to investigate his mental health.

Mr. Dear – bearded and unkempt, his leg and arms in manacles – was in court to face 179 felony counts, including first-degree murder, in the November 27 shooting that killed three people and wounded nine.

“You’ll never know the amount of blood I saw in that place”, he said. Dear then exclaimed of King. Dear also said he would not undergo a mental evaluation, nor be put under psychotropic drugs, “so that I can’t talk like the Batman guy”. “And he wants to do that to me”. Holmes this year was given multiple life sentences. When the judge and attorneys discussed sealing the case documents, Dear said: “Seal the truth, huh?”

The Planned Parenthood group has drawn anti-abortion protests in the past. At another point, he snapped at King: “You’re trying silence me”. May said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty would come within about two months after the arraignment. Family of the victims were inside courtroom when Dear shouted “I’m guilty, there’s no trial”. According to one law-enforcement official, Dear said “no more baby parts” to investigators after his arrest.

“Could you add the babies that were supposed to be aborted that day? Can you add that to the list?”

Near the end of the hearing, Dear yelled that his lawyer was “in cahoots” with Planned Parenthood.

“There’s a lot more to this than me to go silently into the grave”. Also, one of Dear’s ex-wives said he had vandalized a SC abortion clinic years ago by putting glue in the locks on its doors.

Killed in the attack were police officer Garrett Swasey, a father of two, Army veteran Ke’Arre Stewart, a father of two, and Jennifer Markovsky, a mother of two. He wounded at least nine more in what was a tense five-hour standoff with police until he surrendered.

Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said the officers’ willingness to immediately confront the shooter helped make possible the rescue of 24 people trapped inside the clinic, along with 300 others who took cover in nearby businesses.