Posted on 09/13/2007 12:04:16 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Less than three months after his arrest, former UVSC student Kidus Chane Yohannes has been declared mentally competent to stand criminal trial.
A 4th District Judge made the decision on Thursday, Sept. 6. A preliminary hearing has been set for Sept. 20.
"Yohannes is charged with two felony counts of providing false information for a gun background check and a third felony of possessing a credit card stolen from one of his roommates," said Joe Pyrah, a Daily Herald writer.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, prosecutors requested the competency examination of Yohannes because, as is stated in court documents, he is "consumed with violent depictions of the death of United States military servicemen, as well as human execution by gunfire."
Yohannes was taken into custody in June when his roommates notified police that the student had been stockpiling weapons and talking about mass murder. The Ethiopian immigrant's arrest fell only weeks after Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus.
Police have, so far, been unable to locate two AK-47 semi-automatic rifles believed to be in Yohannes' possession before his arrest.
After his arrest in June, UVSC Police banned Yohannes from the campus.
UVSC? University of Vermont?
Somewhere in Utah? No state in the topics, but a reference to Salt Lake City.
Thanks.
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