Colorado clinic shooting: Cop, 2 others killed in open firing; many wounded
28 Nov 2015 11:33 AM IST28 Nov 2015 11:33 AM IST
Colorado clinic shooting: Cop, 2 others killed in open firing; many wounded
Three people were killed and nine wounded on Friday when a gunman opened fire at a family planning centre in Colorado, officials said.- Buckley said the shooter was armed with some kind of 'long weapon' with a shoulder stock such as a rifle and some witnesses reported hearing automatic fire.
- A sheriff's department SWAT team with at least one armored vehicle and several ambulances had also been on standby, as the evening drew in on the snowy scene. The immediate vicinity was placed on lockdown and people were told to stay indoors.
- An unknown number of people were left inside the clinic with the shooting, on what had been a regular working day at Planned Parenthood, a day after the Thanksgiving holiday.
- Speaking at the scene before the standoff ended, police spokeswoman Lieutenant Catherine Buckley warned that the gunman had taken 'items' and bags inside the building with him.
- Earlier, there had been fears that the unidentified gunman might have explosives with him, and police were carefully combing the scene after the siege came to an end when he surrendered.
- The women's health care giant has also been mired in a months-long scandal after anti-abortion activists released secretly recorded videos showing the organization's officials discussing use of aborted fetal tissue for medical research.
- Abortion is one of the services provided for women by Planned Parenthood and the association has become a lightning rod for criticism by social conservatives.
- It was also not immediately clear if the Planned Parenthood family planning center had been specifically targeted.
- Colorado Springs Fire Chief Chris Riley said that 11 people had been taken to hospital, five of them police officers.
- 'I was watching the officers' movement within the building on security cameras and communicating to the officers who were in the building and it was the most incredible work of officers trying to minimize the fatalities and get this guy in custody
- Mayor John Suthers paid tribute to police for getting the gunman into custody without further bloodshed at the Planned Parenthood building, where people scrambled into a safe room in a desperate bid to save themselves.
- The Colorado attorney general tweeted about a "tragic loss of life," without confirming the number of dead, and five police officers were among the wounded, Colorado Springs officials said, in the latest incident to shed a damning light on America's
- 'I want to convey to the loved ones of the victims, this is a terrible, terrible tragedy that occurred here in Colorado Springs today,' Mayor John Suthers told reporters. 'Obviously, we lost two civilian victims, we mourn the loss of a very brave
Three people were killed and nine wounded on Friday when a gunman opened fire at a family planning centre in Colorado, officials said.
Colorado clinic shooting: Cop, 2 others killed in open firing; many wounded
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