UPDATED (3:30 p.m. PT) to include more details about the hearing and charges against Dear.
The man who police say killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado on Nov. 27 proclaimed there would be no need for a trial and that he was a "warrior" for unborn children.
"I am guilty!" he shouted in court on Wednesday, according to reporters inside the courtroom. "There will be no trial. I am a warrior for the babies."
The outburst offers a clearer picture into what may have motivated 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear to attack the clinic. Previous reports stated that Dear told a police officer "no more baby parts" during his arrest.
In total, prosecutors announced 179 charges against Dear, including eight first-degree murder charges and 131 attempted first-degree murder charges.
Later, Dear had another outburst, interrupting court proceedings, according to the Denver Post:
As the judge and attorneys were discussing who was included in the gag order, Dear interrupted.
"The babies that were supposed to be aborted that day, could you add them to that list?" [Dear] said.
[Public Defender Dan] King requested that the judge order prompt discovery in the case so the defense team can learn "the depth of Mr. Dear's mental illness."
Dear interrupted, "You're not my lawyer."
Planned Parenthood called the shooting a form of "domestic terrorism." The victims were a cop, Officer Garrett Swasey; an Iraq War veteran, Ke'Arre Stewart; and Jennifer Markovsky, a mother of two. Nearly a dozen others, and five cops, were injured.
Dear had been living in remote locations without electricity or water and was known to hold survivalist ideas. One of his three ex-wives, Barbara Mescher Micheau of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, said he had vandalized a South Carolina abortion clinic at least 20 years earlier, announcing to her that he had put glue in the locks of its doors, a common protest technique among activists trying to shut down abortion clinics.
Dear was in court on Wednesday to be formally charged with murder by Colorado prosecutors. The hearing is still taking place.
He has been held without bond since the Nov. 27 shooting.