First Week of Dominguez Competency Trial: Experts Lay out Davis Stabbings Suspect’s Mental Spiral

The Forensic neuropsychologist Dale Watson attended the fifth day of Reales Dominguez’s mental competency trial in Yolo Superior Court in Woodland. The first week of trial, which concluded with his evidence, will resume on August 7. RS

A forensic Neuropsychologist stated on Friday that Carlos Reales Dominguez, who is accused of a savage stabbing spree in Davis that concluded with his arrest three months ago, was a weak young man who was likely experiencing his first break of schizophrenia when he first encountered him. (PHOTO: OPOYI.COM)

Davis Stabbings Suspect

The jury in the trial will determine whether the 21-year-old former UC Davis student is mentally fit to face charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with three stabbings.

Residents were horrified and terrified by the horrific, seemingly random attacks for a week while police in Davis, a college town, looked for the offender. Dominguez Reales was apprehended on May 4 and named as the only suspect in the stabbings by the Davis Police Department.

David Breaux, 50, and Karim Abou Najm, a 20-year-old UC Davis graduate student, were slain with knives in different Davis city parks. Kimberlee Guillory, 64, was wounded severely in a third attack when she was sleeping in her Davis homeless camp. NORDOT.

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Dominguez Competency Trial: Experts Lay the Groundwork

He recalled Reales Dominguez as looking “very thin,” which was essentially the same as how he appeared Friday while sitting next to his lawyer in court. For 33 years, the forensic neuropsychologist recalled being astonished by Reales Dominguez when the defendant extended his hand in a rather “robotic” display of social graces and manner.

Reales Dominguez made very little eye contact with Watson during that initial interview, which lasted for roughly five hours, according to Watson’s testimony. He claimed that the defendant was slow to process information, had trouble completing basic office duties, had a stiff posture, seldom moved, and spoke little, giving mainly passive answers without contributing any information of his own.

By the accounts of people close to him, Reales Dominguez was reputed to have “pristine grooming,” according to Watson. According to Watson, the defendant had become a helpless old man. He administered an IQ test to Reales Dominguez, and the results revealed that the defendant now had the IQ of a 10-year-old kid.

Watson looked over the claims made by Reales Dominguez’s former girlfriend and roommates in addition to the jail evaluations. He claimed that the defendant’s actions and appearance, as well as his remarks and failing academic performance, all indicated to him that the young man’s mental health was worsening.

Due to a family situation, McAdam excused one of the jurors from the case on Friday morning. He replaced the excused jurors with one of the four alternates at random and continued with the competence trial.

The court informed the jury that the mental competency trial would resume with testimony on August 7. A trial management hearing in Reales Dominguez’s case is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, and the court will spend the following week hearing previously scheduled motions in other cases.

McAdam informed the jury that their deliberations might start as early as August 9.

The judge informed the jury, “I wanted to share that with you. We’re still on target.” I have no concerns about taking the week off.

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