An anti-abortion extremist has been indicted on a new murder charge after admitting killing a doctor who provided abortions.
James Kopp, who is already charged with intentional second-degree murder, has pleaded innocent to the new charge of reckless murder with depraved indifference to human life.
If convicted, he could get 25 years to life in prison.
Mr Kopp was employed for a week at the City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital in Hume Street at the end of January 2001 and in early February as a temporary typist. He also stayed with a religious order in south Dublin who were also unaware of his identity.
Prosecutor Joe Marusak said: "There was new evidence that was brought to our attention that warranted the second count."
He would not elaborate, citing a gagging order, but the indictment is said to be linked to the admissions Kopp made in an interview in The Buffalo Newsnewspaper in Buffalo, New York, last month.
Kopp, 47, who was captured in France after nearly three years on the run, told the newspaper he carried out the October 1998 sniper attack that killed Dr Barnett Slepian, 52, in suburban Amherst.
Kopp said he meant only to wound the doctor, but "the bullet took a crazy ricochet".
Kopp, a militant known as "Atomic Dog" in anti-abortion circles, said he shot Slepian because of his outrage over abortions.
Kopp is scheduled to go on trial in February.
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