Gunman deemed unfit for trial in Colorado abortion clinic shooting dies in prison

Robert Lewis Dear, 57, accused of shooting three people to death and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last month, attends his hearing to face 179 counts of various criminal charges at an El Paso County court in Colorado Springs, Colorado December 9, 2015. REUTERS/Andy Cross/Pool

DENVER (Reuters) -Robert Dear, the self-proclaimed "warrior for the babies" who was charged with killing three people and wounding nine others in a 2015 shooting spree at a Colorado abortion clinic, has died in a prison medical center.

Dear, 67, who the courts had repeatedly deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, died on Saturday at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, according to information posted on Tuesday by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He had remained in custody since his arrest immediately after the rampage on November 27, 2015.