A gunman has killed three people and wounded nine others in a shooting at an abortion clinic in the US.
The killer was arrested after a shoot-out with police during a five-hour stand-off at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
Garrett Swasey, a 44-year-old police officer who had served six years with the University of Colorado force, was among those killed. Five of his colleagues were among the injured.
The gunman, whose name was not immediately released, was taken into custody.
Police have not found a motive and do not know whether the shooter had any connection to Planned Parenthood, a national women's health care provider that offers abortions at some clinics.
Lieutenant Catherine Buckley said: "We don't have any information on this individual's mentality, or his ideas or ideology."
Planned Parenthood said it did not know the full circumstances or motives behind the attack, or whether the organisation was the target.
A number of people were evacuated during the five hour stand-off - some wrapped in blankets in the blowing snow - to a nearby Veterans Administration clinic.
The shots sent people inside the clinic racing for cover.
Jennifer Motolinia hid behind a table inside the clinic and called her brother, Joan, who said he heard multiple gunshots in the background.
"She was telling me to take care of her babies because she could get killed," Joan Motolinia said of his sister.
He rushed to the clinic but was frustrated because a police barricade kept him from getting close.
"People were shooting for sure. I heard someone shooting. There was a lot of gunfire. She was calm, she was trying to hide from those people," he said.
Denise Speller, manager of a nearby hair salon, said she heard as many as 20 gunshots in less than five minutes.
She told The Gazette newspaper she saw two officers near a bank branch, not far from the Planned Parenthood facility.
One of the officers appeared to fall to the ground and the other officer knelt down to help and then tried to get the officer to safety behind a patrol car, she said. Another officer told Ms Speller to seek shelter inside the building.
"We're still pretty freaked out," she said while still trapped inside the salon. "We can't stop shaking."
The location of the shooting is less than six miles from the street where a man shot and killed two of three people before dying in a gun battle with police on Halloween.
Additional reporting by the Press Association
