85-year-old convicted of murder incompetent for sentencing

Published March 11, 2023 8:56 AM

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge has ruled that an 85-year-old suburban Kansas City man convicted of killing an attorney is not competent to move forward with sentencing. KCTV-TV reports that David Jungerman will be committed to the Missouri Department of Mental Health, and his competency will be reevaluated in six months following the ruling on Friday. Jungerman was found guilty of first-degree murder in September for the 2017 killing of 39-year-old Tom Pickert. A judge in November ordered that Jungerman undergo a mental competency evaluation. At a hearing on Friday, experts testified that they found Jungerman incompetent. His lawyers had said Jungerman has an unspecified neurocognitive disorder.

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