“This fits a pattern,” said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, describing “the escalation of activities from perhaps just protesting to making threats to carrying out threats.”

For the most part, the complaint filed Friday in county court mirrors a criminal complaint filed Thursday by federal prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Madison that charged Lang with a misdemeanor, attempting to injure, intimidate and interfere with people providing reproductive health services.

Both complaints describe how Lang accidentally fired a bullet through the door of his room at Motel 6 on Wednesday night, then told Madison police of his plan to kill a doctor at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday morning.

But the attempted murder complaint filed Friday provides a different account of how Lang fired the gunshot in his motel room. In the federal complaint, Lang said he was loading a magazine into his handgun and it went off, but he did not know how it went off.

In the Dane County complaint, Lang told police that he was practicing lowering his gun and was facing the motel room door, then pulled the trigger, causing the gun to fire.

“I didn’t think it was loaded,” he said, according to the complaint.