Double murder defendant will have mental exam

The trial of thirty-one year Ryan Horne, an alleged mentally challenged person who is charged with double Murder, was to start this morning in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas, but his attorney, Alifa Elrington, argued that he should get a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is competent to stand trial. Justice Lucas agreed and as a result the trial was adjourned until December seventeenth. The killings occurred midday on May twenty-second, 2006, at an apartment building at the corner of Dean Street and Euphrates Avenue which Horne shared with the victims, sisters Blanca and Sandra Esquivel. The police reported that Horne attacked the sisters for no particular reason, stabbing Blanca forty-five times and Sandra, thirty times. The police also reported that when they arrived at the scene they saw Blanca lying on the ground near the entrance to her apartment with the alleged murder weapon, a six inch long knife, embedded between her legs. Horne was apprehended shortly after the incident when he attempted to get into a taxi. He was grabbed by a group of men who tied him up until the police arrived.