Overview
- Federal inmate records show Robert L. Dear, 67, died on November 22 at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
- Authorities have not released a cause of death.
- Dear publicly admitted to the 2015 Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attack that killed three people and wounded nine.
- He was diagnosed with a delusional disorder in 2016 and was repeatedly deemed incompetent, with courts later authorizing involuntary antipsychotic medication.
- His death halts ongoing competency restoration and forecloses criminal trials in both federal and state cases, days before the attack’s tenth anniversary.