In the spring of 2023, a nurse practitioner at the El Paso County jail made four appointments to take Walmart gunman Patrick Crusius out of the jail for mental health testing, without seeking permission of defense attorneys.
The effort was stopped after defense lawyers alerted federal and state judges of the plan, according to records recently made public at the request of El Paso Matters.
The appointments were scheduled by Jamie Wyman, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who works at the El Paso County Detention Facility, according to a motion filed May 1, 2023, by Crusius’ defense team. The motion was unsealed this month by U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama in response to an El Paso Matters request to make public federal court records that had been sealed during the prosecution of the Walmart mass shooter…