A psychologist concluded last month in a report that a man who Tarrant County prosecutors allege beat his mother to death, likely with a wooden jewelry box, is incompetent to stand trial, and a judge on Tuesday ordered his transfer from jail to a state mental health facility.
“It was an exorcism,” Alexander Valdez told police officers as he walked out of his far west Fort Worth house and sat on a chair on the front porch on April 18, according to a detective’s affidavit supporting Valdez’s arrest warrant for murder in the death of Teresita Sayson, 58.
Valdez had a Bible in his hand and was covered in what police suggest was his mother’s blood…