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Despite outcry from a former Hartford police officer who nearly died in a vicious stabbing, the state board that oversees psychiatric commitments voted Friday to uphold the decision to transfer Jill Kidik’s attacker from the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Hospital to a unit with less security and more privileges for patients.
A man who stabbed his wife in 2009 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity appeared in court last week for the first time in more than a decade.
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Nearly three years after he deliberately ran down pedestrians on Toronto’s busy Yonge Street, killing 10 people and injuring many others, a 28-year-old man has been convicted of carrying out the deadliest mass killing in the city’s history.
After a seven-week trial held virtually last fall as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a judge on Wednesday found Alek Minassian guilty on 10 charges of first-degree murder and 16 of attempted murder.