Shelley Shannon Shelley Shannon Rachelle Ranae "Shelley" Shannon (born March 31, 1956) is an American best known in U.S. media reports as an anti-abortion extremist. Shannon was convicted in a Kansas state court for the attempted murder of Doctor George Tiller by shooting him in his car in Wichita, Kansas in 1993. She was also convicted in U.S. federal court for ten attacks at abortion clinics using arson or acid. At her sentencing in U.S. District Court in 1995, the presiding judge described Shannon as a terrorist and agreed with prosecutors that she was a threat even from behind bars. She served
Assassination of George Tiller nor local police arrested him in the days leading up to the murder despite reports and evidence offered to both that he vandalized a women's clinic the week before and the day before. In a telephone call from prison, Roeder confessed to the press that he had shot and killed Tiller, and declared that he felt no remorse. In the six months before Roeder's arrest, he said, he had worked for an airport shuttle service, a party-rental shop, a convenience store and a property management enterprise. After his arrest, Roeder's ex-wife, Lindsey Roeder, claimed that Roeder had been suffering from