A man charged with brutally murdering his father and cutting up his remains was recently ruled incompetent to stand trial in Maine. During a hearing yesterday, Jan. 5, Leroy Smith III told the judge that the band Slayer had once been present in 2011 when he had a gun pointed at his head. His statement had nothing to do with the May 2014 slaying and Smith was subsequently ruled unfit to stand trial, centralmaine.com reports.
Smith described a bizarre scenario during his hearing despite the judge telling him that if he spoke he would be removed from the courtroom.
"With my case, they're telling me that my story is delusional grandiose of proceedings that happened, and they're not investigating it," he said.
"The fact of the matter [is that] in 2011 I had a gun pointed to my head and was sworn to keep secret of what I am. And they refused investigating any persons that are responsible. The whole entire music group Slayer was there. I was told then that what they did was too overboard. I sent them a message on Facebook and that Jeff Hanneman, the guitarist, takes his own life. He took his own life May 5 of 2013."
Founding guitarist Hanneman died May 3, 2013, from liver failure.
The judge responded to the statement by demanding Smith sit down and relay any further thoughts to the court in writing through his lawyers.
According to police, Smith stabbed his father to death, cut his remains into pieces and hid the body parts outside. After he was apprehended by law officials, Smith told police where to find his father's remains. Investigators found 16 trash bags in the area described by Smith.
"To be able to establish any sort of attorney-client relationship is impossible. He thinks our role is to subpoena society and to subpoena certain heavy metal bands to come to explain why they won't let him play with them," Smith's attorney said.
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