James Carey Turok is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 79-year-old Eric Kutzner
A man accused of a random murder in a Nanaimo coffee shop is in court this week to determine if he can be held criminally responsible.
Dr. Robert Lacroix, a psychiatrist who assessed Turok three times after the killing and was called as an expert witness by the Crown, said Turok described himself as a “medical intuitive” who had special healing powers and that he believed he could communicate telepathically. Lacroix quoted a statement Turok gave to police while in hospital following the attack: “Zombies came at me. Like that’s why I had to kill that guy. That was a zombie. So how could I kill somebody that isn’t human? How can that be considered killing something that in a sense is still, is something that’s death, because it’s not human, so it didn’t die.”
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