NEW YORK (JTA) — The man charged with killing five people, including one Jew, in a racist shooting rampage last month in suburban Pittsburgh is not competent to stand trial, a psychiatrist testified May 9.
Dr. Christine Martone said that Richard Scott Baumhammers suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
The judge is waiting for a second doctor’s report before making a judgment on Baumhammers’ competency.
Accused JCC shooter tells FBI: No regrets
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The man accused of last August’s Jewish community center shooting near Los Angeles told the FBI he is at war with the “Jewish controlled” government in the United States, according to a newly released court document.
Buford O. Furrow Jr. also told the FBI that he had no regrets about shooting five people at the North Valley JCC in Granada Hills and subsequently killing a Filipino American mail carrier, according to the document filed Tuesday.
Furrow’s trial is scheduled to start in mid-December.