The mother of one of the Santa Fe High School victims says she liked what she heard. 'I'm happy to hear about the evaluation. It's very important. We can't keep living like this,' she said.
A judge appointed Dr. Joseph Penn, the director of mental health services for UTMB, to do an independent mental evaluation on Dimitrios Pagourtzis. That report should be done in 30 days.The alleged Santa Fe School shooter will be evaluated by an outside mental health expert to determine his competency.
The court will then meet again to determine if Pagourtzis is competent to stand trial. The next status conference is set for May 5.The motion was brought by Judge Jones, who inherited the case in January when he was elected to the bench.Defense attorney Nick Poehl said he had a problem with the judge ignoring parts of the law and his lack of knowledge of the defendant's mental health background. He said there are more than 800 pages of records from the state hospital.
Judge Jones said that the state hospital has failed at its job of restoring Pagourtzis to competency. In 2018, Rosie's son used his body as a human barricade to keep the shooter, identified by authorities as Pagourtzis, out of the classroom.
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