Las Vegas reality TV figure Chad Ollinger is headed to a mental-health facility instead of back to a criminal courtroom, after a Nevada judge ruled he is not currently competent to stand trial in a jailhouse killing case.
Judge Christy Craig of Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District found Ollinger legally incompetent and ordered him transferred from the Clark County Detention Center to a mental-health facility for treatment and evaluation. The decision pauses the open-murder case stemming from the Dec. 26, 2025 death of another inmate at the jail. Ollinger remains held without bond while court staff work out the details of his move into the state’s competency restoration program.
Corrections officers found an inmate later identified as 42-year-old Christopher Kelly lying motionless in a cell he shared with Ollinger, with what appeared to be blunt-force injuries, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Metro detectives re-booked Ollinger on an open-murder charge after the Dec. 26 incident, and court records show he had been in the Las Vegas jail since October. An arrest report, summarized by FOX5 Las Vegas, says nearby inmates reported hearing a struggle and that Ollinger’s mental state quickly came under scrutiny.
Judge orders competency restoration
During a brief remote hearing, Judge Craig explained that two doctors who evaluated Ollinger found him incompetent, while a third concluded he was competent, according to Courthouse News. She ultimately sided with the majority and ordered him sent to a local mental-health facility for restorative treatment and further evaluation. “I will see you when you get back from the hospital,” she told Ollinger as the hearing wrapped up. The court did not specify when he might return to face the open-murder charge…