A forensic psychiatrist told jurors that a man accused of fatally shooting members of his ex-wife's family in 2014 wasn't responsible for his actions because of severe mental illness that made him believe voices in his head telling him to carry out the killings.
A forensic psychiatrist told jurors Monday that a man accused of fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife’s family near Houston in 2014 wasn’t responsible for his actions because of severe mental illness that made him believe voices in his head telling him to carry out the killings.
But Stephen Raffle, a forensic psychiatrist who examined Haskell and reviewed his medical records, testified at his capital murder trial that Haskell didn’t know what he was did was wrong. Haskell’s marriage had ended after years of domestic violence, according to court records. His ex-wife and his children had moved from Utah to Texas to be with her family.
During her cross-examination of Raffle, Bard said Haskell had told other medical experts who had interviewed him that he wanted to shoot his ex-wife in the back of the head because he had “so much hate and anger.”At the start of the trial, Cassidy Stay, the only person to survive the shooting,she begged Haskell to not hurt her, her parents or four siblings. She told jurors Haskell had her and her family lie face down on her living room floor before shooting each person one by one.
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