A competency hearing will be held Oct. 6 for Thomas Simich Jr., who is charged with killing his sister and brother-in-law last spring.
Simich's father said Simich, 46, of Freedom, reportedly suffered a brain injury when he was mugged nearly 20 years ago. Beaver County Deputy Court Administrator Aileen Bowers said making arrangements for the hearing has been complicated because Simich and his mother are deaf, and his father, Thomas Simich Sr., is partially deaf. Bowers said interpreters are being provided through Pittsburgh Caring and Deaf Services.
According to police, Simich shot his sister, Marilyn Bergman, and brother-in-law, Steven Bergman, at his parents' house May 2 following a discussion about putting his parents into an assisted-living facility. Simich lived with his parents.
Past postings on the brutal double homicide where Simich Jr used a 20-gauge shotgun are found here, here, here and here. Will Thomas Simich Jr. be found competent to stand trial? Will attorneys for Simich Jr. plead Insanity? Will he get jail for life? Mental institution? Or the death penalty? Stay tuned....
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