The 25-year-old man accused of fatally capturing two folks in a College of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus dorm room in February will bear a competency analysis, an El Paso County district court docket choose ordered Monday.
Nicholas Trevon Jordan is charged with two counts of first-degree homicide within the Feb. 16 deaths of his roommate, 24-year-old Samuel Knopp, and 26-year-old Celie Rain Montgomery of Pueblo.
Police responded to the UCCS campus simply earlier than 6 a.m. on Feb. 16 when Jordan and Knopp’s different roommate referred to as 911 after being awoken by gunshots, in line with an arrest affidavit.
Police discovered the our bodies of Knopp and Montgomery, who was not a pupil on the college, with a number of gunshot wounds in Knopp’s room and Jordan’s room was emptied of his belongings.
Jordan had beforehand threatened to kill Knopp over a dispute about trash within the dorm pod. He filed a request to withdraw from UCCS lessons and housing the day earlier than the capturing, in line with an arrest affidavit.
Jordan was arrested on Feb. 19 in Colorado Springs with all of his belongings packed in his automobile.
Jordan’s lawyer filed a movement for a competency analysis on Friday and Decide David Shakes ordered the analysis throughout a listening to Monday, in line with on-line court docket information and the El Paso County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Prosecutors didn’t argue in opposition to the analysis, stated spokesperson Kate Singh.
Shakes additionally ordered a psychological well being keep within the case. Jordan is ready to look for a assessment listening to on April 12, in line with court docket information.
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