PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) – A man pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of a staff member at a Cascadia Health residential facility in Gresham but said he was not responsible due to his mental health.
James Calvin Smith, 58, was a client of Cascadia Health’s residential facility McCarthy Place when Haley Alexis Rogers had been working the graveyard shift on July 15, 2023. The facility had 10 beds and round-the-clock staffing for adults with mental illness.
Smith says he had been receiving care in the facility to treat schizophrenia.
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That night, prosecutors say Smith stabbed and killed Rogers sometime before 7 a.m. when the morning crew arrived at work and found her body…