Three people were killed including one police officer today in the standoff at the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Officer Garrett Swasey was killed in the shooting. Swasey had been with the force for six years.
The Washington Post reported:
A suspect is in police custody following an hours-long shooting standoff at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, where at least one police officer and two civilians were killed Friday.
“The perpetrator is in custody,” Mayor John Suthers declared just after 5 p.m. Mountain time — more than five hours after an active shooter was first reported at the health-care clinic, spawning confusion that lasted through the afternoon over whether the gunman was at large or holed up at the medical facility with staff and patients.
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs said the officer killed was Garrett Swasey, 44, who had been with the department for six years and responded to the initial reports of an active shooter.
