NEW HAVEN — A judge has ruled that a Hamden man charged with killing his mother is not mentally competent to stand trial.
The New Haven Register reports that the judge on Monday ordered 34-year-old Kyle Tucker to a mental health facility for a 60-day program aimed at restoring him to competency after a psychiatrist testified that Tucker has “a psychiatric illness that has resulted in delusional beliefs.”
Prosecutor say Tucker attacked his 60-year-old mother, Donna Tucker, in their Hamden home in June. He told investigators he struck her repeatedly in the head with a baseball bat because God “got into my body,” and then burned her corpse in a fire pit. He also said his mother had trying to poison him.
Defense attorneys urged the judge to accept the psychiatrist’s findings.
