Although Wichita police would not name the suspect, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office identified him as Scott P. Roeder, according to the Associated Press.
Wichita police said it appeared that the suspect had acted alone but that they are investigating whether he had any connection to anti-abortion groups.
Police on Sunday said they expected the man to be charged with murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
Just how this murder helps the anti-abortion cause is a mystery; if anything, it sets it back.
Tiller is the fourth abortion doctor murdered in this country. The others are David Gunn, John Britton, and Barnett Slepian. Slepian's was the last murder before yesterday. He was killed in 1998.
It's possible the Tiller killing could alter a bit the debate over abortion.
A number of the major anti-abortion groups in the Kansas area condemned the killing. Those groups may not have had a thing to do with it, but their loud protests helped create the climate in which murder--and I mean real murder, not some philosophical or religious argument abortion is on par with murder--is likely.
One can also view a vigil attended by hundreds in memory of Tiller on the Wichita Eagle site. There are also other videos relating to the killing.
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Tiller was a baby killer who got exactly what he deserved.
Baby killers must be put out of action
Pro life groups who try to tiptoe around his death by saying it was an act of violence are way off base.
The fact that the Clinic where Tiller practice is going to be closed forever accomplished, with one bullet, what years of protests have been unable to achieve.
Tillers death should be a warning to all abortionists that they await the same fate if they do not stop their barbaric practices.
Who would hesitate to put a bullet in Hitler's head or Osama Bin Ladins? Who would hesitate kill someone who was threatening the lives of their children?
When you have the chance to put a killer out of his misery and no one else will do it, is it not your moral obligation to do the job.
Tiller is gone and his clinic is closed. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!
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