The suspect accused of fatally stabbing 3-year-old Julian Wood earlier this summer in a Giant Eagle parking lot has been ordered to an inpatient treatment facility after being deemed incompetent to stand trial for the time being.
According to Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas records, Ellis was undergoing a 20-day evaluation when the doctor treating her stated, “that the defendant is incompetent to stand trial, but that there is a substantial probability of restoration to competency within the statutory time frame if provided with a course of treatment.”
Ellis has been ordered to undergo treatment at North Coast Behavioral Health. Once treatment has been completed, she will be placed back into the custody of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office.
Ohio Revised Code states the statutory time frame to determine if Ellis could be competent for a future trial is one year.
This comes after her attorney said in a hearing in July that she was incompetent to stand trial and was “not able to assist in her defense.”