The delusions were taking over Shaun King’s mind, no longer kept at bay by medications he had abandoned. With his dog beside him in his red Mustang, King drove until about 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 23, 2014, when he stopped near a 7-Eleven. Ghaffar, a store clerk, had been holding a coffee pot when King, wearing a dark hoodie and sunglasses, pulled a box cutter and slashed him more than 70 times, prosecutors said. But King’s attorney, Mary Siegfried, argued that her client indeed had deep mental illness, citing the very reports Perkins was compiling. Last year, Perkins put King back on Haldol, reevaluated him and changed its finding — concluding he was not criminally responsible for the killing.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2018 00:41 UTC