A May 16, 2016, trial date was set Nov. 6 for a man who has been returned from a state mental hospital and will stand trial for attempted murder of a woman who was cut with an object with metal spikes on Paradise Valley Road.
Jesse Alan Gutierrez, 47, appeared last Friday before San Diego Superior Court Judge Amalia Meza who set the trial date. Gutierrez was returned from Patton State Hospital on July 16 after doctors there said he had regained his mental competency.
Another judge looked at doctors’ reports and confirmed that Gutierrez had regained his mental competency. He was sent to Patton in Sept., 2014 after he was determined to be mentally incompetent.
A detective testified in 2014 that Gutierrez used a metal object that contained sharp nails and that he cut a random woman in the neck on Oct. 26, 2013 at 5:30 a.m. after demanding her car keys. She was taken to a hospital after the incident on Paradise Valley Road south of Woodman Street.
The detective said Gutierrez told him he was responding to voices that told him “to kill and destroy.” Gutierrez is also charged with attempted carjacking, attempted robbery, and holding up another woman the day before.
Gutierrez has pleaded not guilty and remains in the George Bailey Detention Facility on $200,000 bail.
