VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A judge will decide whether a Vancouver man accused of stabbing his sister to death was insane.
The Vancouver Columbian reports a pretrial hearing began Monday in Clark County Superior Court for 48-year-old Michael Schuurmans.
His family says he believed he was God and his sister was “Satan’s spawn” in February of last year when 53-year-old Shirry L. Dohman-Rice was killed. The siblings shared a home with their elderly mother.
Judge Robert Lewis will decide whether to send Schuurmans to a mental hospital or to a murder trial.
