A St. Joseph County judge has ruled a Mishawaka murder suspect is not competent to stand trial.
Court records show Narles Brown Sr. has been found incompetent in the case involving the February 2025 shooting that killed 22-year-old Asia Phillips and seriously wounded Brown’s son, Tyreese Brown.
The murder case is on hold and can only move forward if Brown is later determined to be competent to stand trial.
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“But suppose, as seemed more likely, that he was so crazy that he had never been aware that he was doing anything wrong? What then?
Well, we shoot mad dogs, don’t we?
Yes, but being crazy that way is a sickness —
I couldn’t see but two possibilities. Either he couldn’t be made well — in which case he was better dead for his own sake and for the safety of others — or he could be treated and made sane. In which case (it seemed to me) if he ever became sane enough for civilized society … and thought over what he had done while he was “sick” — what could be left for him but suicide? How could he live with himself?
And suppose he escaped before he was cured and did the same thing again? And maybe again? How do you explain that to bereaved parents? In view of his record?
I couldn’t see but one answer.”
-Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Indeed.