Immigration: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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...Mike Martindale
The Detroit News
PONTIAC -- A man who killed an elderly West Bloomfield Township woman with billiard balls more than two years ago inside a Royal Oak hospital will remain in the state's Center for Forensic Psychiatry for another year, an Oakland County judge ruled Thursday.
On Feb. 27, 2007, Alejandro Guzman-Amezola, now 35, went on a billiard ball-throwing rampage inside the psychiatric unit of William Beaumont Hospital, injuring five people including another patient, Phyllis Madgy, 76, of West Bloomfield Township. Madgy, who was struck by two balls while sitting in a wheelchair, died a month after the incident from head injuries.
An autopsy ruled Madgy's death a homicide and Guzman-Amezola, an illegal Mexican immigrant, was charged with second-degree murder. Oakland Circuit Judge Edward Sosnick found Guzman-Amezola not guilty by reason of insanity after three doctors testified the construction worker was diagnosed as "bi-polar disorder, type one" and, in his manic state, fit the definition of mentally ill because he lacked the capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his act...
PONTIAC -- A man who killed an elderly West Bloomfield Township woman with billiard balls more than two years ago inside a Royal Oak hospital will remain in the state's Center for Forensic Psychiatry for another year, an Oakland County judge ruled Thursday.
On Feb. 27, 2007, Alejandro Guzman-Amezola, now 35, went on a billiard ball-throwing rampage inside the psychiatric unit of William Beaumont Hospital, injuring five people including another patient, Phyllis Madgy, 76, of West Bloomfield Township. Madgy, who was struck by two balls while sitting in a wheelchair, died a month after the incident from head injuries.
An autopsy ruled Madgy's death a homicide and Guzman-Amezola, an illegal Mexican immigrant, was charged with second-degree murder. Oakland Circuit Judge Edward Sosnick found Guzman-Amezola not guilty by reason of insanity after three doctors testified the construction worker was diagnosed as "bi-polar disorder, type one" and, in his manic state, fit the definition of mentally ill because he lacked the capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his act...
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