Stamford Man Found Incompetent to Face Murder Charge: Report

Stamford Police photo: Timothy Anderson.

Timothy Anderson, the Stamford man accused of causing beating his mother to death earlier this year, reportedly has been declared incompetent to stand trial.

During a hearing at state Superior Court in Stamford on Thursday, a clinical psychologist from Connecticut Valley Hospital’s Whiting Forensic Unit said that Anderson may be competent to stand trial within two months, if his treatment is continued, according to The Advocate.

According to a report by psychologist Lori Hauser, Anderson has been improving since being admitted to the state’s maximum security psychiatric hospital in September even though he thought his 76-year-old mother Maryann Anderson was still alive.

Judge John Blawie issued the ruling after Hauser testified that Anderson receives anti-psychotic medications and doesn’t appear to understand the criminal proceedings.

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Anderson is facing a murder charge for the March 23 beating his mother after she confronted him for not taking his medications. Mary Ann Anderson was beaten in the Sleepy Hollow Road home she shared with her son. Despite her injuries, the victim was able to tell officers that her 42-year-old son, assaulted her and fled from the house and through the woods located at the end of the street, before officers arrived.

The 76-year-old woman died three days later even after doctors at Stamford Hospital removed part of her skull to relieve brain swelling and placed her on a ventilator.

Blawie set a hearing for Feb. 18 when another psychiatric evaluation will be presented, according to The Advocate report that can be found here.