Planned Parenthood shooter once again ruled incompetent for trial

Admitted Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear was once again ruled incompetent to stand trial Friday.

Dear has been in custody since the shooting in November 2015. He faces 179 felony counts, but a potential trial keeps getting pushed back by his mental competency.

Dear’s next competency hearing is set for August 5 at 8:30 a.m.

In previous hearings, Dear has been found incompetent for trial and has been diagnosed with a severe delusional disorder. For more than 20 years, Dear has believed that federal government agents are involved in a conspiracy against him, and the staff at Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo are a part of that conspiracy. He has been refusing to take medications at the facility.