A judge suspended criminal proceedings Jan. 7 for a Chula Vista man who is charged with killing his grandmother and his uncle after his attorney said he wasn’t mentally competent to be arraigned.
Raymond Joseph Chatterfield, 29, will remain in jail and will have a psychiatric exam on Feb. 9. He is accused of killing Donna Chatterfield, 78, and Kenneth Chatterfield, 54, in his grandmother’s mobile home on Nov. 30, 2015.
Chula Vista Superior Court Judge Patricia Garcia scheduled a mental competency hearing for Chatterfield on Feb. 29 before another judge who will consider the psychiatric evaluations. If he is found to be mentally incompetent, he will be sent to a state mental hospital for treatment.
Although Chatterfield was arrested by San Diego Police the same night of the murders, his arraignment was delayed twice because of his attorney’s concern that he wasn’t mentally competent to be arraigned, much less stand trial.
San Diego Police responded to a 911 call Nov. 30 at 3:55 p.m. at a mobile home in the 1000 block of Beyer Way in Otay Mesa. Both victims were found lying on the floor with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics declared them both deceased at the scene.
Police found Raymond Chatterfield outside a fast food restaurant in the 1100 block of 30th Street. He has been housed at the George Bailey Detention Facility, but his attorney requested he be transferred to the downtown jail where the psychiatric exam will take place. The attorneys have not discussed the facts of the case in court.
