A mental patient who fatally repeatedly-stabbed a halfway house care giver to death claims he didn’t know what he was doing.
Armando Negrete, 40, of Portland is using the “incompetent to stand trial” excuse for savagely butchering Shalom House counselor Marlene McNeill last month.
McNeill, 44, of Gorham was meeting with Negrete at Shalom House in Portland when she told him he was paranoid, police records reviewed by WMTW’s Jim Keithley show.
Negrete pulled a knife and stabbed the program manager several times in the stomach, killing her.
WMTW says a court hearing was cancelled this week after Negrete pulled the “I’m crazy” defense to avoid going to trial.
Apparently that’s the defense in vogue for bringing a knife to a counseling session.
A judge ordered Negrete to be provided with counseling to restore the accused killer’s sanity so he can be tried at a later date.
Crazy or not, he should be incarcerated for life
Bullshit.
Like the animal that he is, have him put down.
DON”T CARE! hang him.
While nothing, absolutely nothing justifies what he did, as a neutral observer I’ve observed a lot of these purported “counselors” and more than a few are Nurse Racheds.
I would like to know what she was telling him he was paranoid about, and her basis for saying that. As a truly disinterested observer, I’ve seen a lot of these people treat their “clients“ quite badly, and just because you’re crazy doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
It’s been 50 years since we reevaluated our mental health system and I think we need to do it again. From stem to stern we need to reevaluate everything.
Mental or not put his ass in prison.
Is he an anglo? To hell with incarcerating him. Give him the 5 cent solution. That would be like a 45mm round right to the temple. Torture him a bit first.