Posted on 10/17/2017 6:10:20 AM PDT by Enlightened1
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina teenager accused of decapitating his mother is psychotic and won't be prosecuted on a murder charge, his attorney said Wednesday.
A judge ordered 19-year-old Oliver Funes Machada involuntarily committed to a state psychiatric hospital after a series of mental health evaluations, including those by state experts, defense attorney Boyd Sturges said. Machada was ruled incompetent to proceed with his case.
"This is consistent with what our position is," Sturges said. "We feel that Mr. Machada is very, very seriously deranged. And clearly he's psychotic, and we think the state's correct."
Sturges said the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the murder charge under an arrangement that could allow the case to be pursued again if Machada were deemed competent in the future.
Machada told a 911 dispatcher he stabbed his mother repeatedly on a March 2017 afternoon because she had angered him, according to court documents. The teen calmly told the dispatcher that he wouldn't harm two younger siblings heard wailing in the background of a 911 recording.
Machada told dispatchers he killed the woman "because I felt like it," according to an investigator's affidavit obtained by CBS affiliate WNCN.
He also told a dispatcher that "he stabbed her 'like eight times' and left the knife in her mouth," according to the sworn statement by Det. A.R. Roberts of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, reports the station.
Warrants say a deputy saw him carry his 35-year-old mother's severed head and a knife outside their home in Zebulon, which is east of Raleigh. The siblings, ages 2 and 4, were unhurt when authorities arrived at the grisly scene on a quiet, rural street.
Court documents said Machada, who was 18 at the time, was on multiple psychiatric medications.
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I have always believed that if someone is "nuts", that is all the more reason they need to be executed if they commit a horrific crime.
A 'dreamer'?....................
Gee,
That’s right up there with Edwin Emil Kemper III shooting his grandparents: “Just to see what it felt like”.
No...a psychotic nightmare.
Yeah, he dreamed he was a Muslim.
...you may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one...
BTT!
EVERY murderer is crazy, because there is NEVER a sane, rational train of thought that leads you to murder another person.
Exactly!
When has murder been considered a sane act?
Another crazy Clintoon supporter gets away with murder.
I loved Reagan and thought he was great politician and just what our country needed.
However, the mental health system is non-existent in this country and there are millions of us who are subject to victimization from mentally ill family members who drain us of money and resources, frighten and disgust their siblings and their parents, and their civil rights trump ours. We are left holding the bag to either support these characters in homes of their own (preferable) or living with us (not good), while they spend their time making others weirded out and we get no help from the government. This is an area screaming for government attention. As it is, the so called crisis intervention teams tout the civil rights of the mentally ill as the reason they will not pick them up and get them to a facility. It is bullsh8t.
Our mental health systems so F'd up. I'm sure the committal process has been abused in the past (such as the Kennedy daughter), but these loons can't be left on the street. There's not a Karl Childers in the bunch
It seems that the psychotics are all known and just quit taking their meds. They have to be tracked on a daily basis in perpetuity. One day off the meds it should be back to the funny farm for awhile.
The ACLU thinks otherwise. There lies the root cause. It's a true bleeding heart liberal mantra.
ICE was able to furnish correct name and spelling of perp.
Neighbor who had lived close by was stunned, saying family moved in early June.
Mom, besides having the 18yr old, also had children 14, 4 & 2 (2 &4 must be her anchor babies)!
Others showed up at the home and removed family belongings but wouldnt speak to neighbors (guess they didnt speak English well enough to communicate!)
We should stop importing psychos.
“because I felt like it,”
I served on a jury for a murder trial. The testimony was that the murderer told his friends that he would show them how easy it was to kill someone (a passed out homeless man on church steps). What convicted him was the video in the police interrogation room where he told his mother that he did it.
A 19yo with a 35yo mother.
The hand-wringers of the Left are moaning about gthe availability of guns causing such tragedies as the Las Vegas massacre. Wrong approach. The soft on criminals approach that they’ve inflicted on this country is a major cause of the problem. The death penalty justly but speedily applied,while not the only solution,will help reduce violent crime.
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