Former Law student Joseph Cho's latest psychiatric evaluation found him mentally incompetent to face charges of attempted murder.
Cho, 32, allegedly fired 15 rounds from a 9 mm handgun into the door of his downstairs neighbors, two male Drexel University students, whom he believed to be spies.
Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Marsha Neifield found Cho incompetent to stand trial at a May 5 hearing.
Cho was deemed fit to stand trial last January, following a year of psychiatric treatment at Norristown State Hospital.
Peter Bowers, Cho's attorney, requested another psychiatric evaluation about a month ago.
That evaluation also found Cho competent to face charges. However, the latest evaluation allowed Cho to avoid a preliminary hearing, scheduled for May 5.
Repeated preliminary hearings - in which a judge would determine if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial - have been postponed over the past several months.
Cho faces charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and other related offenses.
A status hearing has been scheduled for June 2 at 8:30 a.m.
Bowers did not return calls for comment.
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