Shelley Shannon a fracas, Shannon shot Tiller with a semiautomatic pistol. Tiller was later assassinated on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder. At her trial in state court, Shannon testified that there was nothing immoral about trying to kill Tiller. The jurors needed only an hour to convict her of attempted murder. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison. While incarcerated in Lansing, Kansas, Shannon signed the Army of God's statement in support of the actions of Paul Jennings Hill, identifying herself as a "prisoner of Christ". On June 4, 1995, she pleaded guilty to setting fires at several abortion clinics
Assassination of George Tiller sham" and felt the justice system failed in letting Tiller go free. On May 30, one day before Tiller was killed, a worker at a Kansas City clinic told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Roeder had tried gluing the locks of the clinic shut, something Roeder was suspected of doing there before years earlier. The "Kansas City Star" reported that a man of Roeder's description had glued the locks shut at the Central Family Medicine clinic in Kansas City on May 23 and May 30. President Barack Obama said, "I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr.