Civilian Killed In Planned Parenthood Attack Was An Iraq War Veteran

[herding cats]

Source: CBS

According to KKTV in Colorado Springs, one of the victims has been identified as Ke’Arre M. Stewart, according to the man’s family. Stewart’s wife said he leaves behind his children and she wants justice for her loss.

Stewart’s sister, Temprest Llyod, told KKTV that Stewart is an Iraq War veteran. He was outside Planned Parenthood making a phone call because he didn’t have service in the building. He was shot by the gunman, ran inside and was the person who told everyone to get down, get into rooms and called 911.

The other civilian who was killed has been identified as Jennifer Markovsky, according to the woman’s family. Her father, John Ah-King, told The Denver Post that his 36-year-old daughter was a kind-hearted, lovable person with two children. He said she was accompanying a friend to the Planned Parenthood clinic when she was killed.

Garrett Swasey, a 44-year-old officer at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, was also killed.

Read more: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/11/29/civilian-killed-in-planned-parenthood-attack-was-an-iraq-war-veteran/

[mdbl]

1. WTF???

the end of the article:

Colorado Springs police say they will not disclose why Dear allegedly opened fire. Police said in a statement Sunday that they are sealing the warrants related to the case against Dear. They said they are not providing information on the weapon used in Friday’s shooting, a timeline of events, or a motive of the suspect. That will continue to stoke speculation about what led to the shooting.

Why????

[Fawke Em]

7. 80 percent of the motions filed in the Boston Marathon bombing were sealed.

But, we let the powers that be get away with it because "TERRA! TERRA! TERRA!"

Now that they've seen they can do it without push-back, they will seal more and more of these types of documents.

[JDPriestly]

11. Maybe they want to get a conviction or even, possibly, convicgtions and not a retrial.

[jwirr]

15. That is what I was thinking.

[Unknown Beatle]

12. Colorado Springs is extremely right-wing.

The shooter is also extremely right-wing. I tend to believe that the two have something to do about the sealing of the documents. The right-wing nuts don't want to be embarrassed about the shooters right-wing agenda and intent.

[atreides1]

18. Colorado Springs

The home of James Dobson's, Focus on the Family scam operation!

Right now I wouldn't trust the police all that much, because on theory, some of them could very well be members of churches affiliated with FotF...and might be inclined to not be completely honest about statements made by Mr. Dear!

As I said it's just a theory...but as we've learned from the Chicago situation...we can't trust the police!!!

[exboyfil]

2. 3,2,1

NRA response - If Ke'Arre had been carrying gun, then he would have stopped the gunman at that point. Mark my words that will be the meme of the day.

Sounds like Ke'Arre is as much of a hero as the Swasey to me.

Planned Parenthood was criticized for making this facility a fortress. It appears that is what saved many lives.

[Thinkingabout]

3. A man with a gun and the inability to properly possess the gun.

Whether he was pushed into a homicidal mood or just anxious to kill, the results is still the same. I have heard RWers cheering for the guy who killed Dr Till, shameful.

[90-percent]

6. Not to mention

I think Dr. Tiller was gunned down at his church during a Sunday service?

-90% Jimmy

[jmowreader]

24. Don't think. Know. That's what really happened.

Dr. Tiller was serving as an usher at his church when Scott Roeder assassinated him with a rifle.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. I wish the media would stop referring to civilians and police. Yes, police are terribly

militarized these days, but they are still "civilians"

not military personnel.

[Hekate]

20. Police are uniformed, weapons-carrying personnel. The military have police as well. To both forces

....the rest of us are civilians. The terminology is okay -- what's not okay is sheriffs and police being armed like the military and starting to think they have to act like an occupying army in their/our own country.

[tabasco]

5. Survive Iraq and get gunned down by the "well-regulated militia" in the USA.

Welcome to America, where the right to life is less important than than the right to own guns.

[Tipperary]

8. All of this is a horror and a tragedy.

Shame on our country that we allow this again and again.

[Dropletto]

9. Conservative propaganda fueled his hatred

Let him rot in jail.

[mnhtnbb]

10. There is an on-line fundraiser to benefit his family

here

https://www.gofundme.com/2rcg8j6s

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. kick

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. Victims picture

[sinkingfeeling]

16. What a shame. I feel for his family. But I'm still seeing red that the GOP egged an idiot to take

a gun to Planned Parenthood, all based on the vilest of lies. Justice for Ke'Arre and Jennifer and Garrett.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. Killing cops and vets...good job on the hate rhetoric, GOP

Of course, the last time the GOP revved up the hate rhetoric this high, their nutso wing blew up a federal building with a daycare center.

And now we have gunner trash spamming DU with how much more "effective" FR is at getting their message out! Good lord.

[Hekate]

21. I surely have not forgotten Okalahoma City and the day care center. nt

[KingCharlemagne]

27. Nor have I. I also hope you havent forgotten Waco and the 14

children who died there, mainly BC the FBI was hot to trot. There was never any public reckoning for Waco, hence OKC (at least in McVeigh's and Nichols' minds).

[Daniel537]

19. Wish there was something we could do to stop these gun-nut terrorists

But a few racist slave owners wrote their opinions down 240 years ago so obviously there's nothing we can ever do to stop this madness.

[Hekate]

22. That statement was neither true nor necessary. nt

[Daniel537]

23. No its very true and even more necessary because its what most of our lawmakers will claim

in order to stifle any true progress on even making a dent in this culture of death that the second amendment has wrought. You'll have to forgive me if I seem emotional but since my family and I were nearly murdered in an act of gun violence recently I feel much more angry about this issue than I did before. And it seems there is no end in sight to this madness.

[mdbl]

25. Can't feel safe in public...

where the civilians are armed better than the police. I can't discern who poses the greater threat. I wonder how long it will take the voting public to realize this is their situtation?

[davidpdx]

26. If you are referring to the founders of the country, they sure as hell didn't know

that semi-automatic machine guns would be sold to the public and there would be a thriving black market for criminals to obtain guns. They had no idea the internet would exist. If you were sitting in the room 240 years ago could you have predicted all these things? The Constitution and Bill of Rights are not perfect and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. But to claim that they are responsible is a flat out lie. It is the gun nuts and right wing politicians that continue to exacerbate the problem. Put the blame where it belongs.

[KingCharlemagne]

28. Or you could blame capitalism and the for-profit firearms industry. - nt

[davidpdx]

30. That would be one way of looking at it

I don't think that 100% of the blame though. Another would be how we in society degrade each other in order to try to justify shooting people we don't like. I'm sure we could come up with a long list of things.

[KingCharlemagne]

31. I like the cut of your jib. Our society needs to work much harder on non-violent

conflict resolution, among other things.

[KingCharlemagne]

29. USA! USA! USA! /sarcasm/ - nt