Brown County man not mentally competent to stand trial (IN)

By Samantha Schmidt
Published 2 hours ago

The man accused of attacking a foreign exchange student with a hatchet in Nashville, Indiana, in February is mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge ruled Monday.

Nashville resident Dana Ericson, 59, faces charges of attempted murder, battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery resulting in serious bodily injury. He has spent the last several weeks in solitary confinement in the Brown County Jail.

Ericson admitted to attacking Zhang Yue, an 18-year-old Chinese exchange student who attends Brown County High School. He struck her in the back with a hatchet in downtown Nashville on Feb. 18 as she was taking photographs for a class project.

In speaking with law enforcement, Ericson said he was attempting to perpetrate "ethnic cleansing" and targeted Yue because she was Asian. He called himself a white supremacist and said he "hates these people” ...

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