MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The man sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital for killing six people, including a Skagit County sheriff’s deputy, is not mentally ill, two psychiatrists say in a letter leaked to a local newspaper.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports it received an unauthorized copy of a letter dated Jan. 8 written by two psychiatrists treating Isaac Zamora at Western State Hospital. In it, the psychiatrists say Zamora is severely psychopathic, poses a great danger, but that he is not mentally ill. The letter also contradicts the argument that Zamora suffers from schizophrenia.
Zamora was sentenced to spend life in mental hospital, with a chance he may do so in prison, last November. He had pleaded guilty to aggravated murder.
An internal investigation has been launched after the letter was leaked.
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Information from: Skagit Valley Herald, http://www.skagitvalleyherald.com
