Officer Killed in Colorado Shooting was a Co-Pastor, Skating Champion

Married with two children, Swasey worked as a police officer at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

The officer had moved from MA to Colorado in the 1990s to pursue a figure skating career, according to a fund page set up for the Swasey family.

Buzzfeed has also found incident reports that outline an ongoing dispute with a neighbor, shooting a dog, and a 2002 investigation of Dear for “making unwanted advancements” by lurking in the bushes of a nearby couple’s’ home.

Swasey was a member of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Police Department.

Police declined to discuss the gunman’s motivations.

“The last thing Americans should have to do, over the holidays or any day, is comfort the families of people killed by gun violence”, said the president in the statement. “We have so many questions – we don’t know yet why this happened”, Cowart said, adding: “We can speculate a little bit”.

Fifty-seven-year-old Dear “originally was from SC and also lived in North Carolina”.

The 6-foot-4-inch man was taken into custody Friday after an hours long standoff and shootout.

Dear is due to make a court appearance on Monday. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains released a statement that indicated none of the other victims worked at the clinic.

Police Lt. Catherine Buckley had previously said that there was an unknown number of casualties in the attack and standoff that ended around 4 p.m. Pacific Time. “She was telling me to take care of her babies because she could get killed”, he said. Nine others, including five officers, were injured. The situation has been resolved.

Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said the police showed “untold valor”.

Witnesses who were near or on the scene of the crime tell a chilling account of Dear’s “stone cold” demeanor.

BuzzFeed News will update this post with information on the civilian victims as more information becomes available. “We are grateful to report that all our staff are safe and accounted for and are hoping for the best possible outcomes for the others wounded in this attack”.

“UCCS officers are sworn, state-certified police officers”.

“Here’s a guy who worked full time as a police officer, and then gave a great amount of time to his local church and didn’t get a dime for it”, co-pastor Scott Dontanville told reporters.

Obama said it was too soon to know the Colorado Springs shooter’s “so-called motive” but said the tragedy was more evidence pointing to the need to reform firearms laws.

“Today, I am calling on Speaker Paul Ryan to disband the GOP’s special committee, which was set up only to continue this witch hunt against Planned Parenthood”.

With the gunman still on the loose inside the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, police were able to rescue people hiding inside the building, including Katanya Craion.