Suspect identified as Robert Lewis Dear, 57; Slain officer is Garrett Swasey, 44, of University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 
 
 COLORADO SPRINGS — A gunman killed three people, including a veteran police officer, at a Planned Parenthood clinic here Friday, the latest act of bullet-riddled mass terror to strike a state achingly familiar with it. 
 
 The shooting and subsequent standoff spanned five hours, and, by the end, nine other people had been transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds. All of the injured were reported in good physical condition Friday night. The emotional injuries struck the community deeply. 
 
 Colorado Springs Police Chief Peter Carey said it was a "very, very difficult afternoon in Colorado Springs." 
 
 "All that I can say," Carey said Friday evening, "is my heart is broken." 
 
 The city's mayor, John Suthers, said: "This is a terrible, terrible tragedy that occurred here in Colorado Springs today." 
 
 RELATED: Live blog of Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting 
 
 The shooting killed Garrett Swasey, 44, a police officer at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Swasey, a championship ice dancer turned six-year-veteran officer, was one of the first officers to respond to the clinic, which is about 10 minutes from the university campus. 
 
 The shooting began at 11:38 a.m., and the entire incident took place at the Planned Parenthood clinic, according to police. Officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect, identified by a federal law enforcement source as Robert Lewis Dear, 57, throughout the afternoon, even as they also used an armored vehicle to rescue people trapped inside the clinic. After preparing over the police radio for a final gunbattle, officers took the suspected shooter into custody without incident at 4:52 p.m. Colorado Springs police Lt. Catherine Buckley said officers at the scene were able to shout to the man and convince him to give himself up. 
 
 He was led out of the clinic in handcuffs, wearing a white T-shirt and a white beard. Police did not release his name and said Friday night they would not confirm it. He told officers at the scene that he acted alone, according to police radio transmissions. But Buckley said investigators can't yet say why he acted at all. "To even speculate on a motive would not be reasonable" at this point, Buckley said. 
 
 WATCH: Lt. Catherine Buckley updates media at 4 p.m. 
 
 She said initial reports described the shooter's weapon as "a long gun," such as a rifle. Buckley said the suspect also carried "items" into the clinic, although authorities didn't know whether they were explosive devices. Police saw a propane tank at the clinic, but officers do not know whether the suspect brought that to the clinic. 
 
 The clinic is at 3480 Centennial Blvd., just north of West Fillmore Street, on the city's west side. During the standoff, police shut down Centennial Boulevard and told people at nearby businesses to shelter in place as officers tried to capture the shooter. More than 100 people waited out the chaos inside a King Soopers. 
 
 UCCS police officer Garrett Swasey. (Courtesy of University of Colorado Colorado Springs) 
 
 Shortly after noon, Colorado Springs police Cmdr. Kirk Wilson told journalists at the scene that police were having trouble getting officers to the shooting area. 
 
 At a news conference at about 1:30 p.m., Buckley said police could not confirm where the shooter was or whether he was alone. At 2:15 p.m., the police department reported that officers were "encountering gunfire" from the suspect inside the Planned Parenthood building. 
 
 And still they pushed further into the building. 
 
 "Our officers acted with untold valor," Buckley said. 
 
 Outside the police roadblock stood a man named Joan Motolinia, who said his sister was in the clinic. He said he talked to her by phone at about 1:30 p.m., but she could talk for only a short time. She had gone to the clinic for an appointment, and now she was hiding under a table. "She was very afraid," he said. 
 
 While she was talking, he could hear gunfire in the background. And after about two minutes, his sister hung up on him. "She was telling me to take care of her babies," he said. 
 
 PHOTOS: Scene at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood 
 
 Back at the clinic, a SWAT team made plans over the police radio to end the standoff. It called for tear gas and gas masks. Outside the clinic, one officer shouted for a sniper. 
 
 "We've got to stop this guy," an officer said into his police radio. 
 
 Afternoon drifted toward nightfall, and the tension persisted. Police maneuvered through the clinic, apparently watching the suspect's movements on surveillance cameras. At one point, he sat down in a chair and looked around. 
 
 "It looks like he's almost waiting," one officer said over the air. 
 
 All the while, police raced to evacuate those inside. 
 
 Police dispatchers relayed to officers at the scene information from victims who called 911 while huddled behind locked doors in the clinic, according to radio traffic. One person was in a bathroom. Another was in a file room. There was chatter about the clinic's "safe room." There was a special passcode of rhythmic knocks that would convince the evacuees to open the door. 
 
 Multiple times, the SWAT team's armored truck, called a BearCat, sped away from the clinic and toward a line of more than a dozen waiting ambulances. 
 
 In one of the vehicle's runs, first responders unloaded an injured person onto a gurney. 
 
 In three more runs, people wrapped in blankets and others wearing hospital scrubs walked out of the truck. 
 
 Several of the rescued exited the BearCat wearing T-shirts in weather that had dipped into the low 20s with thickly falling snow. Police called out instructions to them, some going into ambulances and others into police cars. 
 
 Two hours passed, then three, and the number of people trapped inside the clinic dwindled. 
 
 WATCH: Man says sister was inside Planned Parenthood clinic 
 
 Meanwhile, the suspect had moved into a room, and officers had closed in. On the radio, they discussed a tentative plan: Shoot through the wall. 
 
 "Shoot head-high to start with," one officer said on the air. 
 
 And, then, suddenly, the standoff was over. 
 
 An officer said calmly into his radio that the suspect was detained. 
 
 "OK," another officer responded. "Good job." 
 
 When it was over, police said there was still more work to do. 
 
 It could take days to process the crime scene and gather evidence. There will have to be a separate investigation about the police officers' use of force. 
 
 "At this point I have as many questions as you do," Carey said at a news conference immediately after the shooter was apprehended. "I have some police officers at the hospital. That's where I'm going next." 
 
 And so he and Suthers and other officials did, meeting with four of the wounded Colorado Springs police officers at Penrose Hospital on Friday evening. It was unclear where the fifth wounded officer was taken for treatment. 
 
 The officers were conscious and grateful for rescue personnel who rendered aid under fire, Colorado Springs Fire Chief Christopher Riley said. 
 
 The law-enforcement victims — three police officers and a sheriff's deputy, all men — were surrounded by their families at the hospital, he said. 
 
 "There's one word: heroes," Riley said. "They laid their lives on the line today." 
 
 "The officers are obviously in some pain, but thankfully they're alive and talking to us," Riley said. "They're heroes. They're absolutely heroes." 
 
 And back at the scene, officers began trying to piece everything together. 
 
 Over the radio, one officer asked what should be done with the BearCat. There was blood inside, bullet marks on its body. 
 
 "I don't think," another officer replied, "we'll have time to do anything with that tonight." 
 
 Staff writers Elizabeth Hernandez. Kirk Mitchell and Joey Bunch contributed to this report. ||||| Garrett Swasey, 44, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer who was shot and killed while responding to a shooting at a Planned Parenthood office, was described by his fellow church members and friends as a courageous man and loving father who drew strength and inspiration from his Christian faith. 
 
 He was married, with two young children, and had been on the campus police force for six years. He also spent seven years as a co-pastor at Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs. “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,” said Scott Dontanville, a co-pastor who knew Officer Swasey for 15 years. “He did it because it was the thing that he felt he needed to do.” 
 
 Kurt Aichele, a co-pastor at the church and a close friend, said Officer Swasey was once a nationally ranked figure skater and ice dancer and moved to Colorado Springs years ago to train. ||||| COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A gunman burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic and opened fire, launching several gunbattles and an hourslong standoff with police as patients and staff took cover under furniture and inside locked rooms. 
 
 Colorado Springs, Colo., Mayor John Suthers, second from left, talks to media after a deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Daniel Owen/The... (Associated Press) 
 
 People are escorted away after a deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday, authorities said, wounding... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police stand guard after a suspect was apprehended Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in northwest Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, authorities said, wounding... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police stand guard near a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday, authorities said, wounding multiple people. (Daniel... (Associated Press) 
 
 Planned Parenthood clinic shooting survivor Ozy Licano describes his encounter with the shooter Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs Colo. A gunman who opened fire inside a Colorado Springs Planned... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police take a man into custody near a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday, authorities said, wounding multiple people.... (Associated Press) 
 
 A law enforcement officer secures a perimeter near a deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday, authorities... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police take a man into custody near a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday, authorities said, wounding multiple people.... (Associated Press) 
 
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 A person is transported to an ambulance Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, authorities said, wounding multiple people. (Daniel... (Associated Press) 
 
 By the time the shooter surrendered, three people were killed — including a police officer — and nine others were wounded, authorities said. 
 
 For hours, police had no communication with the shooter other than intermittent gunfire from inside the Colorado Springs clinic. As the standoff progressed, officers inside the building herded people into one area and evacuated others. 
 
 Officers eventually moved in, shouted at the gunman and persuaded him to surrender, police said. About five hours after the attack started, authorities led away a man wearing a white T-shirt. 
 
 A law enforcement official identified the gunman as Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina. The official, who had direct knowledge of the case, was not authorized to speak to the media about the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Dear is 57 years old, according to jail booking records. 
 
 No other details about the gunman were immediately available, including whether he had any connection to Planned Parenthood. 
 
 "We don't have any information on this individual's mentality, or his ideas or ideology," Colorado Springs police Lt. Catherine Buckley told reporters. 
 
 Planned Parenthood said all of its staff at the clinic was safe. The organization said it did not know the circumstances or motives behind the attack or whether the organization was the target. 
 
 The University of Colorado in Colorado Springs police department identified the officer killed as 44-year-old Garrett Swasey, a six-year veteran of the force. He was married and had a son and daughter, according to the website of his church, Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs. 
 
 There were no immediate details about the two civilians killed in the attack. Five officers and four others were hospitalized in good condition, police said. 
 
 "Certainly it could have been much, much worse if it were not for the heroism of our police officers to corner the person in the building," Colorado Springs Fire Chief Chris Riley said. 
 
 Witnesses described a chaotic scene when the shooting first started just before noon. 
 
 Ozy Licano was in the two-story building's parking lot when he saw someone crawling toward the clinic's door. He tried to escape in his car when the gunman looked at him. 
 
 "He came out, and we looked each other in the eye, and he started aiming, and then he started shooting," Licano said. "I saw two holes go right through my windshield as I was trying to quickly back up and he just kept shooting and I started bleeding." 
 
 Licano drove away and took refuge at a nearby grocery store. 
 
 "He was aiming for my head," he said of the gunman. "It's just weird to stare in the face of someone like that. And he didn't win." 
 
 Inside, terrified patients and staff hid wherever they could find cover. Jennifer Motolinia ducked under a table and called her brother, Joan, to leave him final instructions for the care of her three children in case the gunman found her. 
 
 Joan Motolinia said he could hear gunshots in the background as his sister spoke. "She was telling me to take care of her babies because she could get killed," he said. 
 
 For others, the first sign that something was wrong was when police officers appeared and ushered people to the building's second floor. Planned Parenthood employee Cynthia Garcia told her mother, Tina Garcia, that the officers wouldn't say why they were gathering everybody together — then she heard the gunshots. 
 
 Her daughter and the others were holed up there for hours while the standoff continued, Tina Garcia said. 
 
 Some people managed to escape the building and flee to a nearby bank. An armored vehicle was seen taking evacuees away from the clinic to ambulances waiting nearby. 
 
 With the immediate threat over, authorities swept the building and turned their attention to inspecting unspecified items the gunman left outside the building and carried inside in bags. They were concerned that he had planted improvised explosive devices meant to cause even more destruction. As of late Friday, police did not say what was found. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Kristen Wyatt in Colorado Springs, Alina Hartounian in Phoenix and Colleen Slevin, Dan Elliott and Thomas Peipert in Denver contributed to this report. ||||| Click here for more recent updates 
 
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 Saturday 1:15 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 A heavy police presence could be seen early Saturday afternoon at Dear's residence in Park County, located just off U.S. 24 in a grassy expanse known as Hartsel flats. 
 
 Two officers were crouched down examining a wood-paneled shack at the five-acre property, 809 Ouray Court, which also included a small RV or mobile home and stacks of firewood. 
 
 Other law enforcement officers -- including two Park County sheriff's SUVs, at least one ambulance and a command center vehicle -- where stationed in a makeshift parking area farther away. 
 
 A sheriff's deputy blocked the entrance of Ouray Court, which is nestled in a 10-mile-long stretch of rolling prairies frequented by antelope between Wilkerson Pass and Hartsel. 
 
 He previously lived in North Carolina in a mountain cabin where he kept mostly to himself, living with no electricity or running water on a winding dirt road about 15 miles west of Asheville, the Associated Press reported. "If you talked to him, nothing with him was very cognitive -- topics all over the place, said James Russell, who lived a few hundred feet away. He would often avoid eye contact. Still, Russell said religion or abortion never came up in conversation, the Associated Press reported. 
 
 Saturday 12:49 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Planned Parenthood officials say that all 15 staff members who were in the Centennial Boulevard clinic at the time of the shootings on Friday are unharmed. 
 
 Saturday 12:41 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Penrose-St. Francis hospital spokesman Chris Valentine says that three patients from the Planned Parenthood shootings had been discharged from the hospital and three remained as of about 12:30 p.m. Saturday. 
 
 Saturday 11:49 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 Two funds thus far have been set up for the wife and children of slain Officer Garrett Swasey: 
 
 - Aventa Credit Union has established the Garrett Swasey Memorial Fund. To make a donation, stop by any Aventa Credit Union branch or call Aventa Credit Union at 719.482.7600 or 800.555.6665. 
 
 - An online memorial fund is accepting donations for the family at: 
 
 https://www.youcaring.com/the-family-of-officer-swasey-rachel-swasey-and-children-477034. 
 
 Saturday 10:56 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 Officials at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs have announced the school will schedule a moment of silence for slain officer Garrett Swasey prior to Saturday's basketball games. 
 
 Chancellor Pam Shockley Zalabak, UCCS Police Chief Brian McPike and members of the UCCS Police Department will participate in the pre-game moment of silence at Gallogly Events Center. 
 
 Saturday 10:25 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn Saturday morning reacted to comments on the Colorado Springs from the White House: "I'm sorry that President Obama tried to politicize this tragedy." 
 
 "The only appropriate thing to do is to grieve with the families ... and express gratitude to our first responders." 
 
 The Associated Press reports Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers says authorities aren't ready to discuss a possible motive of the gunman who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic there, but says people can make "inferences from where it took place." 
 
 Suthers says investigators have interviewed Dear, but that authorities still want to learn more about him, suggesting that his mental health was part of the investigation. 
 
 The mayor praised the security staff working at the clinic Friday and said they were "incredibly helpful" in working with police to monitor the gunman's whereabouts on surveillance video and advising on the building's layout, AP reported. 
 
 Saturday 9:26 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 Colorado Springs police tweet that a residential address in Hartsel, Colo., has been linked to Robert Dear, and that it has been closed to access by the Park County Sheriff's Department. 
 
 Springs police also confirm that the Planned Parenthood clinic has been cleared, though it still is an active crime-investigation scene. 
 
 Saturday 9:10 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 An online memorial fund has been set up for University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Police Officer Garrett Swasey, who was one of three people killed Friday during a shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. 
 
 Donations are being taken at: 
 
 https://www.youcaring.com/the-family-of-officer-swasey-rachel-swasey-and-children-477034. 
 
 Money raised will start an education fund for Swasey and his wife Rachel’s two children, Faith, 6, and Elijah, 10. 
 
 The $5,000 goal had been surpassed by Saturday morning, topping more than $8,200. 
 
 The six-year veteran of the UCCS Police Department was on duty at the campus Friday morning and responded to the shooting to support Colorado Springs police. 
 
 Originally from Boston, Swasey moved to Colorado Springs in the early ’90s to train at the Olympic Training Center as an ice dancer before retiring and moving into law enforcement. He was an elder who led various groups at his church, Hope Chapel. 
 
 The church will have a prayer gathering in his honor Saturday at 3 p.m. The church, at 5740 N. Academy Blvd., is located near Academy Boulevard and Vickers Drive. 
 
 UCCS will observe a moment of silence before Saturday’s basketball games. The teams will play games at 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at the Gallogly Events Center on campus. 
 
 UCCS also will host a vigil Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. Attendees are asked to those who attend are asked to park in the parking garage and take the north exit to access the west lawn of the campus. 
 
 Saturday 9:01 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 Mayor Suthers, a former attorney general, said, "this is the largest incident I know of in the post-Columbine era." 
 
 The mayor reaffirmed his support for open-carry gun laws in Colorado, and praised law enforcement officers for their "incredible response" to the incident. 
 
 Saturday 8:52 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 A tired Mayor John Suthers revisited the scene of the shooting Saturday morning, and asked about himself by The Gazette, said "I've been better." 
 
 Suthers went on to say, "This is a town I know will support everyone involved ... this town will rally." 
 
 Saturday 8:08 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 El Paso County Sheriff's Office website states that Robert Dear is in jail on a no-bond hold. 
 
 Saturday 8:04 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 A few workers head into the King Soopers, indicating the store may reopen later today. 
 
 Many police are still working the scene around Planned Parenthood. Two badly damaged police cruisers, one with windows shot out, can be seen sitting behind the crime-scene tape. 
 
 In the King Soopers lot, scores of cars still remain. One pickup truck has its window open, a cell phone lying on the snow-covered car seat. 
 
 Saturday 7:55 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 ABC News has reported that Robert Dear is being held without bond as he awaits his first court appearance scheduled for Monday. 
 
 Jail records didn't list charges but showed him being held on two administrative holds, ABC reported. 
 
 Saturday 7:30 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 The Colorado Springs Police Department confirms that the items brought to the scene by the suspect have been secured, and processed items are no longer a threat. 
 
 Saturday 7:16 a.m. UPDATE 
 
 Colorado Springs police issue a notice that those who had to leave their vehicles in the King Soopers parking lot Friday night are now able to retrieve them. 
 
 Snowplows were brought to the area Saturday morning to make it easier to move the snow-covered cars. 
 
 The scene at the Planned Parenthood center Saturday morning was busy: law enforcement officials and about 12 television crews, but all businesses are closed. 
 
 Saturday 6:42 a.m. Saturday UPDATE 
 
 As the sun rose over Colorado Springs, the new day was still marred by Friday's tragedy. 
 
 Even several inches of fresh snow couldn't disguise the crime-scene tape still hung up by the yard at Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard. In the King Soopers parking lot, dozens of snow-covered cars await their owners who were caught by Friday's killings and hunkered down inside stores. 
 
 Across the way, police cars idle, with lights flashing outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic that police say was targeted by Robert Lewis Dear. 
 
 Friday 9:15 P.M. UPDATE 
 
 A law enforcement official confirmed the identity of the man arrested Friday in connection to the shooting. His name is Robert Lewis Dear. 
 
 Friday 7:30 P.M. UPDATE: 
 
 UCCS has confirmed Garrett Swasey, 44, a six-year veteran of the UCCS Police, was killed in Friday's shoting. 
 
 Here is a statement from UCCS Chancellor Pamela Shockley-Zalabak: 
 
 It is with great sadness that I share the tragic events today at the offices of Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs have touched the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. 
 
 A UCCS police officer, Garrett Swasey, 44, responded in support of Colorado Springs Police to the active shooter sitation at about 11:50 a.m. Friday. He was killed in the line of duty. 
 
 UCCS officers are sworn, state-certified police officers. Officer Swansey was on duty at the campus and responded in support of Colorado Springs Police. 
 
 Officer Swasey was a six-year veteran of the UCCS Police Department. 
 
 UCCS is working with Officer Swasey's family and continues to support the Colorado Springs Police Department at the shooting scene. 
 
 All questions about the investigation of Planned Parenthood shootings should be directed to the Colorado Springs Police Department. 
 
 Friday 7 P.M. PRESS CONFERENCE UPDATE: 
 
 Lt. Catherine Buckley of the Colorado Springs Police Department confirms two civilians and a UCCS police officer died in Friday's shooting. Four civilians and five officers were transported to hospitals with gunshot wounds. All are in good condition. 
 
 Mayor John Suthers: "This is a terrible tragedy. It could have been much worse but for the actions of the first responders. I commend the Colorado Springs Police Department and all of the other first responders." 
 
 Police Chief Pete Carey: "My heart's broken. This is a tough situation for a lot of people in our community." 
 
 Friday 6:45 P.M. UPDATE: 
 
 The Colorado Fraternal Order of Police has confirmed that a police officer wounded in the shooting has died. 
 
 Colorado Springs Fire Chief Chris Riley said during a news conference at Penrose Hospital that he had visited all four officers wounded during the shooting. Three are Colorado Springs Police officers and one is an El Paso County Sheriff's deputy. He said all are awake and talking. 
 
 "All of the firefighters and police at the scene are heroes. They laid their lives on the line today to prevent this disaster from getting worse." 
 
 "This has been a tragic day, a very, very tragic day." 
 
 All victims have been transported away from the scene, but emergency responders continue to search the area "to make sure the area is safe. We are not leaving anything to chance. It is also a crime scene, so I can't tell you how long law enforcement will be there combing the scene for evidence." 
 
 "We train for days like this, but hope they never happen. We have to be prepared and our people stood up to that challenge." 
 
 Riley said 14 fire trucks and other vehicles with crews totaling 35 reponded to the scene, along with 12 ambulances and 26 crew members from American Medical Response and countless officers and support personnel from the Colorado Springs Police, El Paso County Sheriff's Office, the Colorado State Patrol, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. 
 
 Friday 6:16 P.M. UPDATE: 
 
 Statement by University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak: 
 
 We at UCCS are saddened by the tragic events today at the offices of Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, about 10 minutes southwest of campus. 
 
 Our thoughts and support are with those injured. 
 
 A UCCS police officer responded in support of CSPD to the active shooter situation at about 11:50 a.m. Friday. 
 
 He was on duty at the campus and responded in support of an officer under fire. 
 
 UCCS officers continue to work in support of the Colorado Springs Police Department at the shooting scene. 
 
 Friday 6 P.M. UPDATE: 
 
 Multiple news outlets are reporting fatalities in Friday's shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood building. Gazette news partner KKTV reports that a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs officer was killed; 9News in Denver reported that one offficer and one civilian are dead. 
 
 A gunman surrendered to police at 4:52 p.m. Friday outside a Planned Parenthood in western Colorado Springs after an hours-long standoff all afternoon. 
 
 Eleven people were taken to hospitals, including five law enforcement officers. 
 
 The gunman and an unknown number of people remained inside for nearly five hours after a shots fired call was made to police at 11:38 a.m. Police have not identified the gunman nor said whether there were any fatalities. 
 
 “This is a horrible tragedy for our community,” said Dan May, 4th Judicial District Attorney. “We saw a lot of individual acts of bravery today and actually a lot of bravery as a team.” 
 
 A woman in a nearby hair salon said she heard 10-20 shots, and looked outside to see an officer fall to the ground and another officer try to drag him to safety. 
 
 "We can't stop shaking," she said, in a phone interview. 
 
 Over the next several hours, people wounded were taken to a police staging area in armored personnel carriers. As one was put on a stretcher and taken by ambulance, shouts in the crowd of law enforcement officers could be heard calling for a sniper to help out. 
 
 More than 100 law enforcement officers from around El Paso County are on the scene, including bomb squads, law enforcement from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado State Patrol, the ATF and the FBI. Police have cordoned off a large swath of the area around Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard, near where the Planned Parenthood facility is. In a nearby strip mall anchored by King Soopers and at least a dozen stores, police asked people to shelter in place. As the shooting began, officers tried to clear the shopping center parking lot. Other Officers with guns could be seen hiding behind buildings. 
 
 Meanwhile, some staff and possibly clients were seen leaving the scene and were taken to a nearby Veterans Administration building to speak with investigators. 
 
 For the latest updates, see below: 
 
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 Friday 5:15 p.m. 
 
 Lt. Catherine Buckley states that officers do not yet have an identification of the suspect, and that the overall scene and circumstances could "take days to process." 
 
 When asked how many bystanders in the nearby King Soopers and other businesses had been rescued by law enforcement, Buckley had no numbers but said there were many instances of "untold valor" on the part of the officers involved. 
 
 Buckley said during the press conference that a total of 11 people have been transported to UCHealth Memorial and Penrose hospitals to be treated following the shootings. 
 
 5:07 p.m.: Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers states at a press conference that the alleged shooter "is in custody." 
 
 There is a "huge crime scene" to be covered, Suthers added, and officials have yet to determine the number of victims. 
 
 4:54 p.m.: Police have detained a shooter at a Planned Parenthood building, according to Colorado Springs police. 
 
 Radio traffic from police starting at 4:50 p.m.: 
 
 * "He's going to come out with his hands up." 
 
 * "He's standing up." 
 
 * "Can you confirm he has his hands clear?" 
 
 * "He's facing down that hallway to the east, his shoulders down." 
 
 * "Bear, you can back up." 
 
 * "Bear, he is coming out." 
 
 * "We've got to take him out if he has any IED suspicion on him." 
 
 * "Are we in the way of the snipers?" 
 
 * "Z-39, we have one suspect trained right now." 
 
 * 4:52 p.m.: "We have our suspect right now. He is alone and by himself." 
 
 Police then began to disperse throughout the building to search for improvised explosive devices. 
 
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 3:17 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Police confirm that officers and the suspect have exchanged gunfire inside the Planned Parenthood building. 
 
 The president of Planned Parenthood Vicki Cowart issues a statement: "At this time, our concern is for the safety of our patients, staff and law enforcement." 
 
 3:11 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Policy report that the shooter is still active, and that all roads around the scene continue to be closed. 
 
 White House officials announced that President Barack Obama has been notified about the situation in Colorado by Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco and will be updated as necessary. 
 
 3:03 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Penrose Hospital confirmed they have six victims of the shootings and Memorial confirmed they are handling three shooting victims. 
 
 2:51 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 One person in scrubs and an employee of Planned Parenthood were just placed in police cars and taken to another staging area. 
 
 The man who was searching for his daughter began hopping up and down as soon as he saw his daughter being taken away in a police cars. 
 
 “She’s all right,” the man said. 
 
 There was a moment this afternoon when a man walked up to the scene with a handgun strapped to his waist and ammunition vest around his chest. He appeared to be asking police if he could help. Officers told him to leave immediately because appearing at the scene while wearing firearms and that equipment was a bad idea. 
 
 2:48 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Joan Motolinia said his sister Jennifer had an appointment at the Planned Parenthood today. He spoke with his sister on the phone about 1 p.m. She was hiding under a table and he heard gunshots before she hung up. He hasn’t heard from her since. 
 
 2:38 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Police are actively engaged with the shooter inside the Planned Parenthood facility and are receiving gunfire, Buckley said. When asked if the shooter has made any demands or had any communications besides firing at officers, she said “no.” 
 
 Police confirm that a fourth officer has been injured, and Buckley would not confirm how many civilians have been injured. 
 
 2:17 p.m. UPDATE: 
 
 Colorado Springs police just tweeted that "officers are encountering gunfire" and the scene is still an active shooting. 
 
 2:11 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Around 1:20 p.m., a man walked up Fillmore Street after parking at least one-quarter to a half-mile away. 
 
 As police officers and tactical units continued working at the scene, the man stood on the south side of Fillmore Street looking toward the Planned Parenthood building. 
 
 An officer pulled up and told the man, “You guys are in the line of fire.” 
 
 The man replied “my daughter’s in the line of fire. She works there.” He verified that she works at Planned Parenthood. 
 
 “We’re trying to get her out,” the officer told the man, adding that the apparent shooter has “a high-powered rifle.” 
 
 
 
 1:53 p.m. UPDATE 
 
 Police report that officers went to a Veterans Affairs clinic across the road from the shooting scene and warned patients and staff to stay away from windows. KKTV reports that Penrose Hospital, where injured were transported, is under a lockdown. 
 
 1:43 p.m. 
 
 Police say they do not know the connection to Planned Parenthood, but that is where the 911 call came from. Police do not know the number of shooters, the containment of the shooters, or the number of victims. Police are not evacuating neighborhoods to the north of the scene, but they are asking residents to stay inside and to avoid the area. There are still people inside the nearby businesses, and police do not know if there are any hostage situations. 
 
 Between Colorado Springs Police Department, El Paso Sheriff's Office and State Patrol, "we are using all of our resources," said spokeswoman and Lt. Catherine Buckley. Officers do not know the type of weapon involved, except there is a rifle involved. 
 
 1:34 p.m.: 
 
 The shooting situation remains active and the shooter is not contained. Colorado Springs police says there is no connection to Planned Parenthood and shooting victims are getting treatment. 
 
 1:28 p.m.: 
 
 CSPD tweeted that three officers are injured and unknown civilians are injured. Police say the situation remains unstable and to avoid the area. 
 
 1:01 p.m.: 
 
 One of the victims being loaded onto an ambulance yelled. 
 
 12:54 p.m.: 
 
 At least three officers are injured, as well as multiple others. There are no estimates of the number injured or whether there are fatalities. 
 
 The shooter is “contained,” according to Lt. Kirk Wilson, a Colorado Springs police spokesman. Officers are working to “extricate” an officer who is at the scene, but police could not immediately reach him. 
 
 12:52 p.m.: 
 
 At least three officers have been hurt, according to a police commander on the scene. 
 
 12:47 p.m.: 
 
 Two patients were just transferred from a black tactical vehicle into waiting ambulance. 
 
 12:47 p.m.: 
 
 A tactical team is positioned near the Chase Bank on Centennial Boulevard. 
 
 12:45 p.m.: 
 
 Police are communicating by cell phone with three people trapped in a bathroom closet inside Planned Parenthood. 
 
 12:43 p.m.: 
 
 Denise Speller, manager at a nearby haircut salon, said she heard roughly 10-20 gunshots in the span of less than five minutes. She said she saw a police cruiser and two officers outside near Chase Bank, not far from the Planned Parenthood facility. One of the officers appeared to fall to the ground and the other office knelt down to render aid, then tried to get the officer to safety behind the car, she said. Another officer told Speller to seek shelter inside the building. 
 
 “We’re still pretty freaked out,” Speller said by phone. “We can’t stop shaking. For now we’re stuck back here not knowing.” 
 
 12:38 p.m.: 
 
 The Mobile Command Center of the Colorado Springs Police and the Tactical Rescue unit from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office both are on scene. One officer asked colleagues to move because "we are in the line of fire." 
 
 12:36 p.m.: 
 
 Colorado Springs Police report that Centennial Boulevard is closed in both directions between Garden of the Gods Road and Fillmore Street. 
 
 12:31 p.m.: 
 
 Scanner traffic indicated at least two officers were down, one near a dumpster, and another taken by ambulance to a hospital. A dispatcher said one wounded patient was reported to be located outside Elite Vision, which is in an adjacent building at 3470 Centennial Blvd. A later dispatch said at four were injured and an officer was heard requesting an ambulance. Another officer indicated wounded patients were being taken to Penrose Hospital, 2222 N. Nevada Ave. 
 
 At least one victim was taken by stretcher to an ambulance shortly after noon. 
 
 Three police officers with guns drawn were pointing their weapons in the vicinity of Planned Parenthood. 
 
 One officer said on his radio that the gunman shot out the back window of his cruiser as the officer tried to "get a look at him." A dispatcher said the gunman wore a long coat with a "hunting-type" hat. 
 
 Police closed Centennial Boulevard in both directions and customers were locked down at a King Soopers grocery store and several nearby shops at Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard. 
 
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– The suspect accused of killing a police officer and two civilians at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs on Friday was a long way from home, according to law enforcement sources. The sources tell the Denver Post that the suspect, who surrendered after an hours-long standoff, has been identified as North Carolina man Robert Lewis Dear, 57. Police have not discussed a motive for the rampage, which left nine people injured. "We don't have any information on this individual's mentality, or his ideas or ideology," a Colorado Springs police spokeswoman says, per the AP. At least four police officers are among the injured, and Mayor John Suthers says the tragedy could have been "much worse but for the actions of the first responders," the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. In a statement, Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains CEO Vicki Cowart said that while the motive is still unclear, they "share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country." The slain officer has been identified as University of Colorado at Colorado Springs officer Garrett Swasey, 44. He was a co-pastor at the city's Hope Chapel and church members tell the New York Times that he was on a mission to save lives on Friday and his own anti-abortion beliefs would not have affected his actions. A co-pastor says church members gathered at Swasey's home on Friday night, where his wife had to break the news to their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. "She had to tell her kids that their daddy wasn’t coming home," he says.