Okey Payne Found Incompetent To Stand Trial For Murder After Assisted Living Center Shooting

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- Okey Payne, a 95-year-old man charged with killing a maintenance worker at his assisted living center, will not go on trial for murder. He has been found incompetent to stand trial.

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Payne is currently receiving treatment at the Colorado Mental Health Institute.

Okey Payne (credit: Boulder County)

Payne is charged with shooting employee Ricardo Medina-Rojas in the head. Investigators say Payne believed Medina-Rojas and other workers at Legacy Assisted Living in Lafayette were stealing money from him. He also thought staff were drugging him.

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