The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic told a woman in the parking lot that she “shouldn’t have come” there that day, according to court documents released Monday.

Then he shot her multiple times before he stormed into the clinic, the documents show.

New and bizarre details about the Nov. 27 attack and the shooting suspect were revealed after a slew of search and arrest warrants were unsealed in the case.

DOCUMENTS: Read the documents unsealed Monday.

Long before the attack at the Colorado Springs clinic, Robert Lewis Dear Jr. harbored a respect for and fascination with violent acts against abortion providers, according to the warrants released. The deadly attack made Dear, 57, happy because his actions “ensured that no more abortions would be conducted” at the clinic, he told police.

Dear dreamed that when he “died and went to heaven, he would be met by all the aborted fetuses at the gates of heaven, and they would thank him for what he did because his actions saved the lives of other unborn fetuses,” according to a search warrant.

Dear faces 179 counts — including eight charges of first-degree murder — for the attack at the Colorado Springs clinic.

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs police Officer Garrett Swasey, 44; Ke’Arre Stewart, 29; and Jennifer Mar kovsky, 35, were killed in the attack.

Chief District Judge Gilbert Martinez ordered Dear to undergo a competency evaluation in December after Dear said he wanted to fire his public defenders and represent himself. The evaluation, which will help Martinez determine whether Dear is capable of making that decision, was completed in March.

The results of the evaluation have not been released to the public.

Dear told investigators that years before the Colorado Springs attack, he once put Super Glue in all the door locks of a South Carolina abortion clinic to prevent anyone from getting inside.

He also revealed that Paul Hill, a former minister who was executed in 2003 for killing an abortion provider and his bodyguard, was someone Dear “thought very highly of.”

In December 2009, Dear sent an e-mail to his son with a link to a website that claims to honor “heroes who stood up for the unborn,” according to a warrant. Links on the website led to information about Hill and others who acted violently toward abortion providers.

Dear wrote “Hero” in the subject line of the e-mail.

On the day of the attack, Dear struggled to find the clinic. He ripped pages with information about the Planned Parenthood clinic out of phone books across Colorado Springs. Eventually, he called the clinic and asked for directions.

When Dear arrived in the parking lot, he was wearing a “homemade ballistic vest” made out of silver coins and duct tape. He was carrying four rifles, according to the warrant.

Two handguns, a shotgun and a rifle sat in his truck, Dear told detectives.

Dear placed propane tanks around the scene and shot at them from inside the clinic, “hoping they would explode.” He shot at officers through windows as they approached.

The woman Dear spoke to in the parking lot survived the attack. But by the time the five-hour standoff was over, three people were dead and 12 people were injured.

As Dear was being placed in a patrol car, he started yelling about “the killing of babies.” He later told an investigator that he went to the clinic because he was upset with “them performing abortions and the selling of baby parts,” according to the arrest warrant.

During his first in-person court appearance in December, Dear declared his guilt and proclaimed he was a “warrior for the babies.”

The documents released Monday originally were sealed by Judge Martinez. But The Denver Post and other news organizations petitioned for their release.

The next scheduled hearing in the case is April 28.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys will discuss the court-ordered evaluation and Dear’s competency.

Jordan Steffen: 303-954-1794, jsteffen@denverpost.com or @jsteffendp

The Associated Press contributed to this report.