WOBURN, Mass.: A Massachusetts man charged with fatally stabbing a girl learning to grow to be a physician at a public library and injuring a person who got here to her assist was discovered not responsible Wednesday due to his psychological sickness.
Jeffery Yao, 27, of Winchester, was despatched to a state psychological well being facility by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman after a one-day, jury-waived trial.
The consultants decided that Yao on the time of the assault was affected by acute signs of schizophrenia with paranoid delusions and was listening to voices, his lawyer J.W. Carney Jr., mentioned in a press release this week.
All three consultants mentioned Yao attacked Stryker as a result of he thought one of many voices threatening him was hers, in line with courtroom paperwork.
Yao had a historical past of psychological sickness that dated to 2013 and required hospitalization eight occasions, in line with information.
Stryker was a first-year pupil on the University of New Englands College of Osteopathic Medicine who hoped to grow to be a physician, the Portland, Maine-based faculty’s president mentioned shortly after the stabbing. She was an advocate for home violence and psychological well being consciousness, served as an orientation chief and was a part of a peer assist group.
Yao had confronted a first-degree homicide cost that will have despatched him to jail for all times if he was convicted.
Instead he was despatched to the state’s most safety Bridgewater State Hospital, and will at some point be launched if he’s decided to not be mentally sick and poses no hazard to the neighborhood.
The verdict within the case was compelled by the findings of the medical consultants, Ryan mentioned in a press release.
It doesn’t alter our perception that Mr. Yao continues to pose a severe danger to the general public and that his long-term civil dedication to Bridgewater State Hospital is required,” she mentioned.
