A man who allegedly killed two of his relatives with a chainsaw was ordered to receive emergency medical treatment Friday.
According to court records, Thomas Steele, 47, is to “immediately and on an emergency basis” be taken to the Alabama Department of Mental Health to receive an in-patient evaluation that determines if he is competent to stand trial.
Judge Wesley Pipes made the filing after determining an outpatient evaluation initially ordered on Oct. 13 would not be sufficient to ascertain Steele’s mental health given that it had “deteriorated” since then…