Daytona Beach, FL – A New Smyrna Beach man charged with killing his grandmother at her home near the North Causeway earlier this year is deemed unfit for trial.
7th Circuit Judge Frank Marriott ruled on Tuesday that 28-year-old Patrick Christopher Campbell will go to a state mental hospital until he’s competent enough to defend himself in court.
Marriott made that ruling after hearing testimony from experts brought forth by Campbell’s legal team as well as the prosecution, according to Spencer Hathaway, a spokesman for 7th Circuit State Attorney RJ Larizza’s office.
Campbell was arrested on March 19th after turning himself in at the Federal Bureau of Investigations office in Daytona Beach. That came a day after 64-year-old Darlene W. Robertson was found dead at her DeSoto Drive home by a family member.
The New Smyrna Beach Police Department says suspicious were aroused when Robertson didn’t show up for work that day and that’s when she was found on the floor of her home with stab wounds to her midsection as well as more wounds to her head.
Officers also said at the time that Robertson’s car was missing, but the vehicle was recovered at the Daytona Beach FBI office after Campbell allegedly took it there.
The arrest report also shows police found a bicycle at the home that was linked to Campbell.
In his arraignment the day after his arrest, Campbell told the judge he was an agent for the United States government and that Patrick Campbell was a name he went by, not his real name.
Campbell’s public defender claimed at the time that his client is a paranoid schizophrenic.
A Volusia County grand jury indicted Campbell in April on charges of first degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and grand theft auto.
Patrick C. Campbell (mugshot courtesy Volusia County Jail)
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