A man has been found mentally competent to hear the charges against him in the death of a 63-year-old woman at Wellfound Behavioral Health in Tacoma.
Prosecutors initially charged Elias Santos Salcedo, 25, with attempted first-degree murder for the March 14 assault. He was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation while he was held in the Pierce County Jail.
Salcedo was charged with first-degree murder after he was found mentally fit to hear the charges against him Wednesday. Judge Thomas Quinlan set bail at $1 million, according to Adam Faber, spokesperson for the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office…