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 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.