WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) 鈥 A California jury will determine the mental competency of a former university student charged in the stabbing deaths of two people and attempted murder of a third, all violent attacks that rocked the usually placid college town of Davis.
A medical expert ordered by the court to review the mental state of Carlos Dominguez, 21, found that he is not competent to stand trial, a Yolo County Superior Court judge said Tuesday. A jury will decide July 24, he said.
Dominguez interrupted the hearing to say that he wanted to apologize. 鈥淚 want to say I'm guilty,鈥 he said, sitting besides his court-appointed deputy public defender, Dan Hutchinson.
At a previous hearing in May, a lawyer.
The stabbings shook the University of California, Davis campus and broader community. Businesses closed early and students feared to step outside their homes, even for daytime classes.
Dominguez had been a third-year student majoring in biological sciences until April 25, when the university let him go for academic reasons. He was , wearing the clothes from the alleged third attack, making it easy for bystanders to identify him.
Police did not disclose a motive for the stabbings and it was unclear if Dominguez knew the victims. Those killed were a 50-year-old homeless man well loved in the community and a 20-year-old UC Davis student. A homeless woman attacked in her tent Monday night is alive.
