http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/kansas.doctor.killed.charges/index.html
CNN) — A 51-year-old man was in a Kansas jail Monday, charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a physician whose women’s clinic frequently took center stage in the debate over abortion, authorities said.
Dr. George Tiller was one of the few U.S. physicians who performed late-term abortions.
Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his Wichita, Kansas, church Sunday morning, according to police. Tiller was one of the few U.S. physicians who still performed late-term abortions and had survived a 1993 shooting outside his clinic.
Scott Roeder from the Kansas City, Kansas, area is being held without bond in the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Facility, according to the sheriff’s office Web site. He is also charged with two counts of aggravated assault.
“This is a tragedy for the Tiller family. We feel so badly about that,” Clarence Roeder, Scott’s uncle, said in a statement provided to CNN affiliate KMBC. “That Scott would murder the doctor in the Lutheran Church. We are also Lutherans, and it adds a double touch of sadness and irony.”
Roeder is expected to appear in court early this week, law enforcement officials said.
The attack drew condemnation from Tiller supporters, from some of those who tried to shut down his practice and from President Obama, who had urged Americans to seek “common ground” on the divisive issue just two weeks ago.
“However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence,” Obama said in a statement issued by the White House.
The shooting prompted U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to direct federal marshals to “offer protection to other appropriate people and facilities around the nation,” according to a statement from the Department of Justice. Watch panel discuss ramifications of slaying 
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