At least 9 injured in shooting near Colorado Springs abortion clinic

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(Cell: 0431 138 537, Email: Saqlain@Dukesrealestate.com) Click here to invest in South Australian Residential Commercial, Rural Properties, Schools & Businesses. ====================================== Nov. 27, 2015 9:01 PM ET The Latest: Official says officer killed in Colorado attack THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATEMENT OF NEWS VALUES AND PRINCIPLES AIM Share Emergency personnel transport an officer to an ambulance after reports of a shooting near the Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov, 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. According to authorities multiple injuries have been reported. (Daniel Owen/The Gazette via AP) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT More News Video Protest over Chicago teen's shooting ties up retail district Nov. 27, 2015 8:07 PM ET The Latest: Prosecutors: Man eyed targets after brother shot Nov. 27, 2015 5:03 PM ET Police ID suspect in New Orleans shooting that wounded 17 Nov. 27, 2015 3:56 PM ET Police: 3 officers injured in shooting near Colorado Planned Parenthood; shooter contained Nov. 27, 2015 3:04 PM ET Chicago man, 27, charged in fatal shooting of 9-year-old Nov. 27, 2015 11:46 AM ET Buy AP Photo Reprints COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The latest on the shooting near Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. (All times local): 6:55 p.m. A law enforcement official says one police officer has been killed in the shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. The official said Friday the officer was with the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. The official, who has direct knowledge of the case, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing and the official was not authorized to speak to the media. Four other officers and six civilians were taken to hospitals. Police say the gunman is in custody. — From AP writer Sadie Gurman in Colorado Springs. 5:12 p.m. The mayor of Colorado Springs says a gunman in a shooting attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic is in custody. Mayor John Suthers says he did not have any further details. A shootout and standoff between the gunman and officers had been going on for hours Friday at the clinic. Police say 11 people, including five officers, have been transported to area hospitals. Authorities do not have any further details on those wounded or whether there had been any fatalities in the attack. ____ 5 p.m. Tina Garcia says her daughter-in-law is among those still inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs where a gunman is locked in a standoff with police. Garcia said she spoke on the phone with Cynthia Garcia, who said that police ushered people to a floor of the building without telling them what was going on. Cynthia Garcia, who works at Planned Parenthood, heard gunshots, but couldn't see where or from whom they were coming. She took a photo out the window, which showed two law enforcement officers walking through the snow. Tina Garcia told The Associated Press by text that her son was also on his way to work at the clinic when she called him and told him not to go in. ___ 4:19 p.m. Police say a standoff with a gunman inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs is ongoing. Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said Friday says the gunman brought unspecified items into the building with him and it was "not a stabilized scene at this time." Buckley says that there are an unknown number of casualties in the attack, and she would not say how many civilians were wounded. She says at least four police officers have been wounded and there may be a fifth. She says authorities are evacuating people from the Planned Parenthood building. ___ 3:53 p.m. Planned Parenthood says it is concerned for the safety of its patients and staff after a gunman opened fire at one of the organization's offices in Colorado Springs. Vicki Cowart, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains, said: "We don't yet know the full circumstances and motives behind this criminal action, and we don't yet know if Planned Parenthood was in fact the target of this attack." Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said Friday that authorities do not have information on the gunman's "mentality, or his ideas or ideology." She says civilians and four officers were wounded in the attack. ___ 3:05 p.m. Joan Motolinia said his sister, Jennifer, called him while she was hiding behind a table inside a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic as a gunman was shooting inside the building. He said he heard a lot of gunshots Friday in the background. "She was telling me to take care of her babies because she could get killed," Motolinia said of the mother of three. Motolinia rushed to the clinic after getting off the phone and was frustrated because a police barricade kept him from getting close to the building. "People were shooting for sure. I heard someone shooting. There was a lot of gunfire. She was calm she was trying to hide from those people," he said. Police Lt. Catherine Buckley says civilians and four officers were wounded in the shooting. ___ 2:45 P.m. Police say civilians have been injured in a shooting in Colorado Springs. Police Lt. Catherine Buckley also said a fourth officer was wounded Friday inside a Planned Parenthood building in the latest exchange of gunfire with a shooter. Buckley says she doesn't know how many or how the civilians were injured. Police say the gunman opened fire before noon on Friday. Three officers were said to be injured in an earlier exchange of gunfire with the shooter. Officials say at least seven people have been taken to area hospitals. It is not known if that number includes the four officers. ___ 2:25 p.m. Police say they are encountering gunfire as they search for a gunman at a shooting scene near a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs. Police previously said the gunman had been contained Friday but later said they were still searching for the person. Police say at least three officers have been injured but it's not known if anyone else has been wounded. There are at least eight ambulances waiting at an intersection near the clinic and a nearby shopping center. ___ 1:50 p.m. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police say they are unsure about the location of a shooter in an attack near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs that left three officers injured. A witness says she heard as many as 20 shots in less than five minutes and saw an officer fall to the ground Friday during the shooting. Denise Speller, manager of a nearby haircut salon, told The Gazette of Colorado Springs that she saw another officer kneel down to render aid to the officer who fell. Commander Kirk Wilson told KKTV that two of the injured officers were evacuated and authorities were still trying to reach the third. He couldn't immediately say how the officers were doing. ___ 1:10 p.m. Police in Colorado Springs say three officers have been injured in a shooting near a Planned Parenthood clinic and the gunman has been contained Commander Kirk Wilson told KKTV that two of the officers were evacuated Friday and authorities are still trying to reach the third. He couldn't immediately say how the officers were doing or how the gunman was contained. ___ 12:40 p.m. Ambulances and police vehicles were lined up near an intersection near a Planned Parenthood clinic and Colorado Springs police told people via Twitter to stay away from the "active shooter scene" because it was not secure. Police said on Twitter that people inside a nearby shopping center were told Friday to shelter in place. No further details were available on the incident. ___ 12:10 p.m. Police in Colorado Springs are responding to a report of an active shooter at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said officers were deployed Friday and the situation has not been stabilized. She didn't immediately have any other details. ============================================= 3:18 PM EST | 01:19 Officers injured in shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado By Isaiah J. Downing COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Police on Friday swarmed an area around a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, where a gunman opened fire, injuring three officers and an undetermined number of civilians, police and hospital officials said. City police said in a Twitter message about two hours after the shooting was first reported that the situation remained unstable, contrary to an ABC News report, attributed to a police commander, that the suspect was thought to have been "contained." "This is an active situation," a police department spokeswoman, Lieutenant Catherine Buckley, told CNN, adding that law enforcement had yet to confirm the gunman's location. She said police also were not sure that shooting had any connection to Planned Parenthood and that circumstances surrounding the gunfire remained unclear. CBS News reported that a gunman fired shots upon entering the clinic, which was guarded by security, and that law enforcement officials were concerned about the possibility explosives being involved. At least three officers and an unknown number of civilians were injured in the shooting, the Colorado Springs Police Department said on Twitter. A spokeswoman for Penrose-St. Francis Medical Center in Colorado Springs confirmed the hospital received three patients from the shooting but the nature and extent of their injuries were not immediately provided. At the outset of the situation, police said in a Twitter post that a call for assistance referred to a person firing a gun in the city's northwest side, on Centennial Boulevard, where the Planned Parenthood center is located. Colorado gunman still shooting from inside clinic, police say The facility provides abortions, screening for sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy testing and other services, according to its website. The clinic was open for business on Friday, according to Cathy Alderman, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. "At this time, our concern is for the safety of our patients, staff and law enforcement," Vicki Cowart, president of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains, said in a statement. As in much of the rest of the country, abortion is a divisive issue in the politically competitive state of Colorado, figuring prominently in attack ads during last year’s hard-fought Senate race between incumbent Democrat Mark Udall and Republican challenger Cory Gardner, the winner of the election. The Colorado Springs clinic has been the target of repeated protests and in recent years moved to its current location, which has been derided as a "fortress" by abortion foes. Hundreds of protesters picketed in front of the clinic in August as part of a push by abortion opponents to cut off public funding for Planned Parenthood, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. One man was charged with trespassing in 2012 after flouting as many as 30 warnings to keep of clinic property, the paper said Early police reports painted a chaotic picture of the situation. Related Coverage Obama notified about shooting near Colorado clinic: White House Police cannot confirm Colorado Springs gunman 'contained': spokeswoman "The area is NOT secure. Media do not stage in the area," the police department said in its tweet, adding that the area was "not secure" and urging members of the public in a nearby shopping center to "shelter in place." Brigette Wolfe, who works across the street from the scene, told CNN she could see law enforcement officers including police SWAT teams deployed in the area. Colorado Springs, about 70 miles south of Denver, was the scene of a mass shooting on Oct. 31 in which a gunman killed three people near downtown before dying in a shootout with police. The city is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Olympic training center. (Reporting by Daniel Wallis in Denver; Additional reporting by Dan Wallis in Denver, Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles, Eric Johnson in Chicago, Laila Kearney in New York and Andy Sullivan in Washington.; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Chris Reese, Leslie Adler and Steve Orlofsky) ============================== Police engaged in a shootout on Friday with a gunman who stormed a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs in a burst of violence that left four officers and an undetermined number of civilians injured, police said. Two hospitals in the area reported receiving a total of nine patients from the shooting, but a police spokeswoman said not all of those injured could immediately be transported from the scene, suggesting some of the victims might still be trapped inside the clinic. Police swarmed the area around the building after an emergency call reporting shots fired at about 11:30 a.m. Mountain Time (1830 GMT), and officers ultimately confronted the suspect inside the building, said Lieutenant Catherine Buckley, the police department spokeswoman. "The officers inside the building have encountered the individual," she said in a briefing to reporters carried live on CNN. "They were exchanging gunfire." Buckley said four officers had been hurt in the shooting, as well as an unknown number of other people, but there was no immediate information on the nature or extent of their injuries. She also said police had so far confronted only one gunman in the clinic, which lies on the northwest side of Colorado Springs, about 70 miles (112 km) south of Denver. About an hour later, live television footage aired by CNN showed several people being escorted safely from the building into police vehicles. CBS News reported that a gunman fired shots upon entering the clinic, which was guarded by security, and that law enforcement officials were concerned about the possibility of explosives being involved. In an account published by the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper, a local man told police on the scene that his daughter works at the clinic and was "in the line of fire," to which officers replied, "We're trying to get her out." The suspect was armed with a high-powered rifle, the Gazette said police told the man. The FBI and agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting local law enforcement investigators. Related Coverage › New York police send vehicles to Planned Parenthood clinics across city President Barack Obama was notified of the shooting by his Homeland Security adviser, Lisa Monaco, and "will be updated on the situation as necessary, a White House official said. Penrose-St. Francis Medical Center in Colorado Springs confirmed receiving six patients from the scene. Memorial Hospital said three more were taken there. The Planned Parenthood center provides abortions, screening for sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy testing and other services, according to its website. "We don't yet know the full circumstances and motives behind this criminal action," Vicki Cowart, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains, said in a statement. "We share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country. We will never back away from providing care in a safe, supportive environment that millions of people rely on and trust." Cowart said. image: http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?d=20151127&i=113873286&w=140&r=113873286-1&t=2 Video Police can't confirm whereabouts of shooter image: http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?d=20151127&i=113872714&w=140&r=113872714-1&t=2 Video Officers injured in shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado As in much of the rest of the country, abortion is a divisive issue in Colorado, figuring prominently in attack ads during last year’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Mark Udall and Republican challenger Cory Gardner, the winner of the election. The Colorado Springs clinic has been the target of repeated protests, and in recent years moved to its current location, which has been derided as a "fortress" by abortion foes. At least eight clinic workers have been killed in violent attacks on abortion providers since 1977, according to the National Abortion Federation - most recently in 2009, when abortion doctor George Tiller was shot to death at church in Wichita, Kansas. Clinics have reported nearly 7,000 incidents of trespassing, vandalism, arson, death threats, and other forms of violence since then, according to the abortion-rights group. Hundreds of protesters picketed in front of the Colorado Springs clinic in August as part of a push by abortion opponents to cut off public funding for Planned Parenthood, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. One man was charged with trespassing in 2012 after flouting as many as 30 warnings to keep of clinic property, the paper said Early police reports painted a chaotic picture of the situation. "The area is NOT secure. Media do not stage in the area," the police department said in its tweet, adding that the area was "not secure" and urging members of the public in a nearby shopping center to "shelter in place." Brigette Wolfe, who works across the street from the scene, told CNN she could see law enforcement officers including police SWAT teams deployed in the area. Colorado Springs was the scene of a mass shooting on Oct. 31 in which a gunman killed three people near downtown before dying in a shootout with police. The city, home to the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Olympic training center, is also a hub for conservative Christian groups such as Focus on the Family that strongly oppose abortion. The attack in Colorado sent jitters across the country. The New York City Police Department reported it had redeployed some of its "critical response" vehicles to Planned Parenthood locations throughout the city. However, it said there were no specific threats to those sites at this time. (Reporting by Daniel Wallis in Denver; Additional reporting by Dan Wallis in Denver, Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles, Eric M. Johnson in Chicago, Laila Kearney in New York, Eric M. Johnson in Seattle and Andy Sullivan in Washington.; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and Tom Brown) Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-colorado-shooter-idUSKBN0TG27D20151127#0AWEpZTxbFCaLAmT.99