MIAMI (AP) - A psychiatric patient accused of killing his roommate at a Miami Beach hospital has been ordered too mentally unstable to stand trial.
A Miami issued the ruling on Tuesday, meaning 25-year-old Andre Brown will be sent to a state psychiatric hospital to rehabilitate. He’s accused of beating and strangling 55-year-old Alejandro Ortega in May 2016 inside a room at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Brown’s attorney Stacy Marczak tells the Miami Herald that they’re “looking forward to competency being regained and getting this case to trial.”
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A police report says Brown told investigators he “had to do it” in a rambling and incoherent statement. He repeatedly referred to Ortega as his “real father” who was “like some Satan.”
The newspaper reports Ortega’s family has reached a settlement with the hospital.
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