Planned Parenthood shooter admired Florida doctor's killer

DENVER (AP) — The man who acknowledges killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic idolized an abortion foe who killed a Florida doctor more than two decades earlier, newly released court documents show.

Robert Dear told police he attacked the clinic in Colorado Springs because he was upset with the reproductive health organization for "the selling of baby parts," according to the documents which give the deepest look yet into his seething disdain for abortion providers.

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.

Judge Gilbert Martinez initially refused to make them public, saying the media do not have a First Amendment right to access court documents, which prompted the monthslong court fight over records that are routinely released in criminal cases.

After killing his first victims, surveillance footage shows him shooing out the window of an employee entrance, going back and forth between the clinic and his truck, and setting up propane tanks in the parking lot that he told police he hoped would explode if he shot them.