then i looked down and there was blood all over the place. she shot him through the window and hit his left arm and also his right arm. bullet went through both arms. reporter: the shooter is quickly arrested and identified as rochelle shelly shannon. a woman authorities soon tie to bombings of other clinics. shelly shannon was a solid believer in that violence was appropriate and that she was going to get the job done. she wasn t a very good shot, thank god. the doctors recommended he take a few days off. he said, no, i m going to work. i have patients. you know, i m just like my patients. you know, last night i got shot and i was scared, but there was somebody there to take care of me. so, the next day he just came in. his arms are bandaged. work as usual. he put up a big sign in front of his clinic that said, women
and that day i kneeled down and i did accept christ as my savior. he discovered the pro-life movement. i don t think he had really had given abortion a thought up until 92 or 93. so, what are your feelings on the practice of abortion? from conception forward, it is murder. it is not man s job to take life or it is our heavenly father s. that s when he really began to meet people. it was shortly after that that he started talking about paul hill and how paul hill had killed the doctor in florida and you that was great. that was wonderful. around the same time roeder began reaching out to rochelle shannon, the imprisoned anti-abortion extremist who had attempted to murder dr. tiller in 1993. and did there come a time when you had face-to-face visits with her? yes.
is shooting me with rubber bullets. i m not afraid of rubber bullets. then i looked down and there was blood all over the place. she shot him through the window and hit his left arm and also his right arm. bullet went through both arms. the shooter is quickly arrested and identified as rochelle shelly shannon. a woman authorities soon tie to bombings of other clinics. shelly shannon was a solid believer in that violence was appropriate and that she was going to get the job done. she wasn t a very good shot, thank god. the doctors recommended he take a few days off. he said, no, i m going to work. i have patients. you know, i m just like my patients. you know, last night i got shot and i was scared, but there was somebody there to take care of me. so, the next day he just came in. his arms are bandaged. just work as usual.
so you would go to the prison in topeka and have visits with rochelle shannon? yes. did you admire shelly shannon? she was i guess, yeah. you admired her. and you admired her because she had tried to kill dr. tiller? i admired the fact that she is that a yes or a no, sir? yes. he started talking about how it was how it was murder, that these doctors were murdering babies. if they re going to murder the babies, well, we re going to murder them. if they kill, then they should be killed. it was hard to live with. nick went to school one morning. i went to work. i came home and scott was gone. money was gone. his clothes were gone. he was just gone. after leaving his family, roeder gets involved with an anti-government militia known as the montana free men. in 1996, he is arrested on the side of a kansas highway. he had sovereign citizen tags on his car so he was pulled over. he had a rifle in the car.
i thought to myself that lady is shooting me with rubber bullets. i m not afraid of that and i looked down and there s blood all over the place. she shot him through the window and hit his left harm and right arm. bullet went through both arms. the shooter is quickly arrested and identified as rochelle shelly shannon. a woman authorities soon tied to bombings of other clinics. she was a solid believer in that violence was appropriate and she was going to get the job done. she wasn t a very good shot. thank god. the doctor recommended he take a few days off. he said no, i m going twork. i have patients. i m just like my patients. last night i got shot and i was scared but there was somebody there to take care of me.