Colorado Planned Parenthood shooter mentally incompetent

COLORADO SPRINGS — A man who acknowledged killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic is mentally incompetent to continue with his criminal case, a judge ruled Wednesday. Martinez ordered the competency exam in December after Dear announced that he wanted to fire his public defenders and represent himself. Dear said the conspiracy began when he telephoned a radio program after the deadly 1993 standoff in Waco, Texas, and referred to the agency as the “Federal Bureau of Incineration.” Dear also told people in phone calls from jail that he believes his attorneys’ attempt to have him declared incompetent is part of a plot to diminish his message opposing abortion. Recently released court documents show he idolized Paul Hill, an abortion foe who killed a Florida doctor more than two decades ago. Dear also told investigators he put glue in the locks at an abortion clinic when he lived in South Carolina, a common protest technique among activists trying to shut down such facilities.