A Chicago man who instructed police he fatally stabbed one other man in an Irving Park alley as a result of he felt threatened by a plastic fork has been discovered not responsible by cause of madness.
Decide Ursula Walowski issued the ruling for 30-year-old Daniel Macias after a bench trial and ordered Macias to bear inpatient remedy. He stays within the Prepare dinner County jail awaiting placement by the Illinois Division of Human Companies.
Prosecutors stated surveillance cameras recorded Macias leaving his house round 9:45 p.m. on June 28, 2023, sporting Beats headphones as he walked towards the alley behind the 3600 block of North Kedzie Avenue. About quarter-hour later, the video confirmed him trailing 49-year-old Christopher Samaniego.
As Macias closed the gap, he eliminated a knife from a sheath as Samaniego reached into his backpack and pulled out a plastic fork, prosecutors stated. Video allegedly confirmed Macias lunging at Samaniego and stabbing him as soon as. Samaniego swung his backpack to fend him off, however Macias stabbed him two extra occasions and fell to the bottom, knocking off Macias’ headphones.
The Samaniego ran, and Macias adopted. They crossed paths with a witness who known as 911. Samaniego, who suffered 5 stab wounds, later died. Investigators recovered a damaged plastic fork and a pair of Beats headphones close to a pool of blood within the alley.
Throughout Macias’ first court docket look, his protection lawyer stated Macias had been trying to start out a man-made intelligence firm and instructed that psychological well being points might have influenced the killing. Decide Walowski later discovered that Macias met the authorized definition of madness on the time of the stabbing.
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