COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — The admitted gunman in the attack on the Nov. 27 2015 Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood died Saturday Nov.22, nearly 10 years to the day since the shooting.

Robert Dear was being held at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.

While the shooting happened a decade ago, Dear never even made a formal plea, despite yelling out in a 2015 court hearing “I’m guilty. There’s no trial!”.

His case was defined by a competency process that caused challenges for prosecutors at the state and federal level.

“This was kind of an odd case that he came in day one wanting to plead guilty, willing to take the penalties associated with that,” Dan May, the former 4 th Judicial District Attorney who was one of the original prosecut

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