A 24-year-old man with schizophrenia was found guilty except for insanity Friday for stomping on a woman’s head and then fatally stabbing a man in separate random attacks in Northwest Portland in 2022.
Multnomah County Circuit Judge Nan G. Waller ordered Kalil Clifford Ford committed to the state psychiatric hospital for life, finding that he lacked capacity to understand the crimes because of his mental illness.
Psychiatrists found he suffered from unspecified schizophrenia, a term used when someone exhibits psychotic symptoms that don’t meet the full criteria for a specific type of schizophrenia…