A man charged in the deadly Colorado Planned Parenthood center shooting in 2015 has died in federal detention, officials reported Tuesday.
Robert Dear, 67, died Saturday in a Springfield, Missouri, federal medical facility, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed in its database.
Dear was charged with killing three people and wounding nine others in the abortion clinic shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Before he was transferred to the Missouri facility, the defendant was indefinitely confined to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, Colorado, until 2022, when a state court found him mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Dear faced 179 state and federal charges related to the shooting, but had repeatedly been found incompetent to stand trial….