A man accused of killing the mother of his child with a sword last week in Northern California will undergo a mental competency exam, putting the case on pause.
The defense requested the evaluation for Jose Rafael Solano Landaeta during his arraignment Monday in San Mateo County Superior Court, where he is charged with murder, with a special allegation of using a deadly weapon and enhancements of causing great bodily injury and of a serious felony. Landaeta, 33, was arrested Thursday afternoon after San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies were flagged down in San Carlos regarding an assault in progress. Deputies found “an obviously deceased female” in the street, Lt. Eamonn Allen said Thursday at a news conference. She was later identified as Karina Castro, 27.Landaeta allegedly used a “samurai sword” to nearly decapitate the victim, San Mateo County Dist. Atty. Steve Wagstaffe said in an interview with The Times.
Thank God he didn't shoot her with a ghost gun.
Just throw him someplace where they never let him out
And be let go.
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