The Purdue College scholar who final month was accused of fatally stabbing his former roommate is planning to make use of an madness protection amid an ongoing felony trial. The scholar's protection staff filed a discover to the court docket asking that medical professionals are appointed to judge his psychological state and resolve whether or not he's match to face trial.
In a movement electronically filed Friday, Ji Min Sha's lawyer, Kyle Cray, requested the court docket to nominate "two or three competent and disinterested psychiatrists, psychologists or physicians who've experience in figuring out competency to look at the Defendant and report back to this Court docket on his competence to face trial."
The movement additionally sought to schedule a competency listening to for Sha, the Journal and Courier reported.
Sha, 22, is a junior finding out cybersecurity at Purdue and is initially from Seoul, South Korea. He faces one depend of homicide for his alleged involvement within the killing of Varun Manish Chheda, 20, a senior finding out knowledge science who was Sha's dormitory roommate. The 2 lived in McCutcheon Corridor on Purdue's West Lafayette campus, about 65 miles northwest of Indianapolis, the place Chheda was from.
Prosecutors allege that Sha stabbed Chheda a number of occasions within the head and neck with a folding knife that officers discovered on the ground close to the chair the place Chheda's physique was found. Outcomes of the preliminary post-mortem dominated Chheda's reason for dying to be "a number of sharp pressure traumatic accidents," in keeping with the Tippecanoe County Coroner's Workplace, which performed the examination. The suspected method of dying was murder.
Purdue Police Chief Lesley Wiete has stated Sha referred to as 911 at round 12:45 a.m on Oct. 5 and was rerouted to native authorities, to whom he reported his roommate's dying of their shared bed room. Officers who arrested Sha discovered him carrying garments with blood on them, prosecutors have stated, though Wiete famous shortly after the stabbing that early proof prompt the act was "unprovoked" and "mindless."
Sha is being held on the Tippecanoe County Jail.