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Los Angeles — A justice recovered Monday that a antheral charged with execution successful the stabbing of histrion James Handy is not mentally competent for transgression tribunal proceedings.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maria Cavalluzzi ruled that 44-year-old Michael Gledhill cannot recognize the lawsuit against him and cannot rationally assistance his lawyer successful his ain defense.
Handy, the 81-year-old histrion whose credits see "Jumanji" and "Top Gun: Maverick," was successful a narration with Gledhill's parent and was recovered stabbed successful the thorax and lying unconscious extracurricular her location connected June 3, constabulary and prosecutors said. He was taken to a hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead.
"This is not however anyone's beingness should end, stabbed successful the thorax and near dying successful the beforehand gait of a home," L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said astatine the time. "The victim, James Handy, deserved to unrecorded retired his aboriginal years enjoying what helium had worked truthful hard for and enjoying it with those helium loved and cared about."
Gledhill was arrested aft telling constabulary helium was the idiosyncratic they were looking for. Officers had responded to the location aft a 911 caller said, "I americium the lad of man, I conscionable killed the antheral of sin," constabulary said.
Gledhill has not entered a plea and has not appeared successful tribunal successful the case. At his scheduled arraignment connected June 5, a justice paused his prosecution and sent the lawsuit to a tribunal that specializes successful intelligence wellness evaluation.
That tribunal ruled promptly aft psychiatric evaluations that helium was not competent. Cavalluzzi besides recovered astatine a proceeding Monday that Gledhill cannot marque due medicine decisions. She signed an bid saying helium could beryllium involuntarily medicated for 1 year, citing a psychiatrist's determination that his intelligence wellness could beryllium hugely helped by due drugs.
She ordered him to look successful tribunal connected July 14 for a proceeding connected his semipermanent placement. His lawsuit volition caput to proceedings if helium is aboriginal recovered to beryllium competent.
Emails seeking remark from attorneys for some sides were not instantly answered.
Brian Delate, a longtime person and chap histrion of Handy, told The Associated Press soon aft Handy was killed that Gledhill's parent had fixed up her store truthful her lad could unrecorded there. Handy had his ain home, but spent overmuch of his clip there, his person said. Delate said Handy had mentioned successful passing that his girlfriend's lad had intelligence wellness problems.
Handy, a ubiquitous quality actor, appeared successful films and TV shows for decades.
He was known for his relation arsenic an exterminator successful the 1995 movie "Jumanji" and much precocious arsenic the bartender Jimmy successful the 2022 movie "Top Gun: Maverick." He besides appeared successful galore of TV's apical transgression dramas, including "NCIS: Los Angeles," "The Closer" and "Cold Case."
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