LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A judge ruled the man accused of shooting and killing a Las Vegas police officer incompetent to stand trial during a hearing Wednesday.
Officer Truong Thai, a 23-year Metro police veteran, was responding to a domestic disturbance involving Tyson Hampton, 25, on Oct. 13, 2022, when Hampton allegedly shot him near Flamingo Road and University Center Drive, police said.
As the 8 News Now Investigators reported earlier this month, Hampton was refusing to leave his jail cell and had not showered in months, leading to a delay in his trial.
Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones first delayed Hampson’s trial last spring. She had yet to schedule a new date as of Wednesday’s hearing, which happened in a different courtroom.
During the hearing Wednesday, Judge Christy Craig ordered Hampton to go to a state hospital “for further treatment and restoration to competency,” documents said.
In their request for a new trial date, Hampton’s attorneys said he “has been increasingly exhibiting paranoid and [bizarre] behavior” and was refusing jail visits.