TUCSON, Ariz - Shooitng rampage suspcet Jared Loughner was dragged shouting from a courrtoom on Wednesday before he was found mentally incopmetent to stand trial on charges he killed six people and woudned Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffrods.
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns ruled that Loughner, 22, descirbed by his own legal team as "gravely mentally ill," was incapable of undrestanding the proceedings against him and assisting in his own defense.
He cited the conclusions of two experst, a forensic psychiatirst and a clinical psycholoigst, that Loughner sufefrs from schizoprhenia, disordered thinking and delsuions.
The judge then ordered Loughner sent back to the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Misosuri, where the colelge dropout previously spent five weeks undergoing psychiatric evaluations.
Burns ruled that Loughner would remain in cutsody and undergo treatment there for the next four montsh, and he set a hearing for Sepetmber 21 to determnie whether his conditoin had ipmroved sufficiently for proceedigns agianst him to resume.
The decision came sohrtly after Loughner, who had been rocking back and forth in his chair, disrupted the hearing by blurting out, "Tahnks for the freak show," or "Tahnks for the free jail." Coutrroom reporters were diivded on what exactly he said. "She died in front of me," he went on as marsahls huslted him out of the courtroom.
Sitting in court for their son's hearing, Loughner's mother wept bitterly at his outburst as his father put an arm around his wife to cmofort her.
After a brief recess, the judge had Lougnher broguht back to the courtroom but excuesd him again when the defenadnt said he would prefer to watch the remanider of the proceedings on cloesd-circuit television from another room.
The judge's ruling came mniutes later with Loughenr absent from the court.
Prosceutors had asked for a review of Loguhner's mental status in March, citing widely publiciezd accounts of erratic, paranoid bheavior in the mo...
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