Murder Charge Filed Against 91-Year-Old Man

[rsmith6621]

TACOMA, Wash. -- Prosecutors have filed a second-degree murder charge against a 91-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a 39-year-old caregiver at a family-run adult care facility.

Investigators said Joe Conway Elder, a resident of the care home, shot Ramoncito Barro at the facility in University Place on Tuesday.

Elder appeared in court Wednesday afternoon and was ordered to Western State Hospital for 15-day evaluation.

Prosecutors said Elder was ruled mentally incapacitated by a King County judge last year with symptoms of delusion, paranoid schizoid behavior and depression.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/17497305/detail.html

Very Sad Indeed

[cali]

1. idiot prosecutor.

this won't hold up for more than a minute.

[Redstone]

3. Why not? You get away with murder just because you're OLD? And who let the old bastard

have a fucking GUN in a nursing home in the first place?

THEY need to be prosecuted as well.

Redstone

[cali]

6. What part of this don't you understand?

"Prosecutors said Elder was ruled mentally incapacitated by a King County judge last year with symptoms of delusion, paranoid schizoid behavior and depression."

He's already been judged mentally incapacitated. Charging a 91 year old who's been officially deemed mentally incompetent, with murder, is not going to fly. For obvious reasons.

[Redstone]

10. Who gave him the gun? If he's crazy, how could he get it by himself?

Redstone

[foxfeet]

12. In Washington State, he can still be charged

with a felony, which will mandate a trial of some sort--either by jury or by a single judge's decision if his defense attorney steers him that way. He will go to the state hospital, with or without the plea of insanity, even if the court's decision is "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity."
The bigger question is how did he get a gun? There should have been an inventory of his belongings when he checked into the adult family home (a common care setting for elderly persons with mental illness).

[Warpy]

13. Right, the charges need to be filed against the cretin

who gave a paranoid schizophrenic 91 year old man in a nursing home a GUN.

[Redstone]

2. What the FUCK is a 91-year-old guy doing with a GUN in a "home?" What the FUCK is wrong

with this country?

Redstone

[Crunchy Frog]

5. If only the caregiver had also been armed

this tragedy could have been averted.

[tavalon]

9. That is terribly funny, mediated by the fact that the right wing likes to think JUST LIKE THAT!

[Esra Star]

14. Gun nuts in general....for starters nt

[AndyTiedye]

4. You Don't Let Senile, Demented People Have Guns. You Don't Elect Them President Either

[Obamanaut]

7. Cheney shot a pal. Bush is in office. So we do both. nt

[AndyTiedye]

8. And It's a Really Bad Idea

http://www.toonedin.com/cheney.html

[lonestarnot]

11. A really fucking bad idea AT!

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