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General News 11/28/2015 at 3:20 PM EST H3'ed 11/28/15

Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Robert Lewis Dear Has Unsettling Past

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The man who police say killed three people and wounded nine others during a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic has a checkered past that includes allegations of domestic violence and animal cruelty. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, was arrested Friday after an hours-long standoff with police in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is scheduled to appear in court Monday. James Russell, Dear’s former neighbor in a rural area near Black Mountain, North Carolina, described him as a man who lived in a cabin without electricity or running water and rambled during conversation. “If you talked to him, nothing was very cognitive -- topics all over the place,” Russell said.

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