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The suspect charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 has died in federal custody, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Robert Dear, 67, passed away due to natural causes at a medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, on Saturday, the agency told the Associated Press.

Dear, who was charged in 2019 in federal court, became entangled in a legal battle over whether he could be medicated for his mental illness, delusional disorder, against his will. He had been repeatedly found incompetent to stand trial, stalling his prosecution for the attack in Colorado Springs.

“According to facts contained in the indictment, on Nov. 27, 2015, Dear traveled to the Planned Parenthood clinic in

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