The hearing on Thursday occurred just weeks after Colorado court authorities released documents stating that Dear, a 57-year-old man charged with killing three people injuring nine others during the November shooting, told police that he unsuccessfully tried to set off an explosion during the attack.

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These documents shed light on some of the comments Dear made after the shooting. In the arrest report and search warrants made public this month, Dear is quoted by police as saying that he expected to go to heaven and “be met by all the aborted fetuses at the gates of heaven and they would thank him.”

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Dear has already undergone a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, and earlier court filings from his attorneys revealed that it found him to be incompetent. But a judge has to weigh in to determine the next steps in the case.

Prosecutors had planned to call someone from the state mental health facility that evaluated Dear and a Colorado Springs detective as witnesses.

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During the hearing, mental health evaluators who found Dear to be incompetent said he suffers from delusions, while the police detective said that Dear appeared lucid during his interviews with authorities and phone calls from jail, according to the Gazette of Colorado Springs. The detective also described how Dear said he did not want to claim insanity and, during police interrogations, outlined an elaborate conspiracy while discussing how he believed the FBI had been following him for decades.

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Last November, police spent hours facing off with Dear at the Planned Parenthood clinic after being called about an active shooter there.

Police said Dear brought more than a half-dozen guns to the facility along with propane tanks he intended to detonate. When officers responded to the scene, they said they were immediately fired upon, and Dear later told police that he knew he was shooting at them, according to police statements released this month.

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Five police officers were shot, and one of them — Garrett Swasey, 44, of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus police — died from his injuries. Two other people were killed: Ke’Arre Marcell Stewart, a 29-year-old Iraq War veteran and father of two; and Jennifer Markovsky, a 35-year-old mother of two who was at the clinic supporting a friend.

When Dear was interviewed by police after he was taken into custody, he told them he brought four SKS rifles with him inside the facility and had two handguns, a shotgun and rifle in his Toyota Tacoma outside. He told police that during the siege, he was wearing a “homemade ballistic vest … made of silver coins and duct tape,” one of the police statements said.

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“As Robert Lewis Dear was being placed into a patrol car, he yelled out a statement about the killing of babies,” the report states.

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Dear also told detectives that he had gone to the clinic “because he was upset with them performing abortions and the selling of baby parts,” according to the arrest report.

In his interviews with police, Dear said he had previously gone to a South Carolina abortion clinic and glued the locks shut to keep it closed for a day. He also told detectives he thinks President Obama is the “Antichrist” and, at various points, recited Bible verses.

Investigators also spoke with Dear’s girlfriend, who told them about Dear’s antiabortion views.

Police said Dear told detectives that he “thought very highly” of Paul Hill, a man who shot and killed a doctor who performed abortions — along with his body guard, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel — in 1994. A search of Dear’s email account showed that he had sent his son an email with the word “Hero” that included a link to a site about Hill, who was executed by the state of Florida in 2003.

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