SAN DIEGO – After being discovered mentally competent in a 2018 murder, an alleged killer’s legal professional has once more sought a brand new psychological competency listening to, now set for April 2.
Christian Louis Ewing, now 36, has spent many of the final seven years at a state psychological hospital because the Dec. 5, 2018 homicide of Gregory Freeman, 57, who was crushed to loss of life by a baseball bat on Rosecrans Road close to Pacific Freeway within the Halfway District.
Prison proceedings had been once more halted on Feb. 20 when his legal professional, Manuel Avitia, expressed a doubt about his shopper’s psychological means to know court docket procedures.
A choose discovered him mentally competent on Nov. 10, 2025, however that discovering solely lasted three months.
Ewing, who stays on the Rock Mountain Detention Facility on $1 million bail, can be interviewed by a psychologist or psychiatrist on the jail who will write up a report. A San Diego Superior Court docket choose will make a ruling as as to whether Ewing is mentally competent and may stand for a homicide trial.
Ewing’s DNA was discovered on the barrel of the baseball bat on the scene. The dispute between the 2 males has not been revealed publicly, as there has not been a preliminary listening to because of the competency situation.
Ewing is identical man who rushed the stage at Petco Park in 2015 when singer Taylor Swift was performing a live performance. They held him, and Swift continued her music with out interruption. He later pleaded responsible to felony battery in opposition to Swift’s safety guards.
