Schizophrenic killer sent for treatment
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A schizophrenic man who killed his 94-year-old maternal grandmother and her roommate at a senior home earlier this year has been declared exempt from criminal liability and sent for mandatory treatment, the Minhang District People’s Procuratorate said yesterday.
The man, surnamed Zhao, entered Zhuanqiao Senior Home in Minhang District in the early hours of February 15 and fatally stabbed the two women in the neck with a dagger.
Medical records showed that 46-year-old Zhao had been taking medication for schizophrenia since 2001, and a report from the police stated that he was having a psychotic episode at the time of the attacks, the procuratorate said. Zhao told the procuratorate that he had no idea what happened after he left home with the dagger, but said he had been unable to sleep due to “crazy thoughts” about someone trying to murder him.
Zhao was turned in to the police by his 70-year-old mother shortly after the killings.
“You don’t have to go to the hospital to visit grandma any longer because I have made them shut up,” Zhao’s mother recalled her son saying when he returned home at 5am, according to the procuratorate.
Zhao looked very anxious the night he set out to commit the murders and refused to take his pills before jumping into a taxi at their residential complex and heading to the senior home, she told the procuratorate.
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