Last year, on a warm Saturday evening in Boise, Idaho, Timmy Earl Kinner Jr. walked into the birthday party of a family. In a random attack, he stabbed nine people, including the birthday girl Ruya Kadir. That little girl died at just three years old.
There's a gag order on the trial so information is sparse, but the Mountain West News Bureau reports the judge found that Kinner was not mentally competent to stand trial – until recently.
"Because the court has determined that you are competent to proceed in this matter, I am going to take the opportunity to re-arraign you on the charges," Judge Nancy Baskin told Kinner in court on October 23.