Athlete, honor student, murderer? How did a UC Davis student spiral into an accused killer?
LA TimesThe testimony in Carlos Reales Dominguez’s competency trial raised one enormous question: Why did no one intervene as the young man spiraled from high school honor student to accused murderer? Witness after witness testified during the proceeding, which would decide whether Dominguez was competent to stand trial for the late April murders of David Henry Breaux, known around town as the “Compassion Guy,” and Karim Abou Najm, a UC Davis student set to graduate that spring. “I would say that Mr. Dominguez is a textbook example of schizophrenia,” testified Juliana Rohrer, a psychologist appointed by the court to determine whether Dominguez was mentally competent. But nothing was set in stone after the meeting, Capito testified, and they “were still trying to get angles on how to approach it.” Dominguez’s family also appeared to worry about him. “In Mr. Dominguez’s case, there’s a mountain of evidence showing that he has symptoms that are affecting his ability to function and that those symptoms are connected to the diagnosis of schizophrenia,” Rohrer testified.
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