A man charged with fatally stabbing and then dismembering a 75-year-old Winston-Salem man in 2017 is being sent to Central Regional Hospital after he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Adrion Demare Whorley, 35, of Rockingham, is charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and concealing a death in connection with the death of John Douglas Agnew. Prosecutors allege that he killed Agnew and then dismembered him at Agnewâs house sometime between April 7, 2017, and April 10, 2017. Prosecutors allege that Whorley dumped part of Agnewâs body in Randolph County.
They are pursuing the death penalty in this case.
At a brief hearing in Forsyth Superior Court Friday morning, Assistant District Attorney James Dornfried said that two doctors â Matthew McNally, a psychologist at Central Regional Hospital, and Dr. Moira Artigues, a forensic psychiatrist â concluded that Whorley lacked the mental capacity to stand trial.
Lige Bobby Boswell, a convicted scam artist/paving contractor with a particularâand provenâpenchant for preying on vulnerable seniors, has seen this movie before.
He knows how it ends, and yet according to court records spread over more than 10 years across the length and breadth of North Carolina, he continues to follow the same plot line.
Boswell picks out a mark, pitches a too-good-to-be-true deal and then proceeds to do a substandard paving job with crummy materials at an inflated price.
Boswell, of Walnut Cove, had a court date Tuesday in Gaston County to answer for three felony charges connected to a similar dealâobtaining property by false pretenses, conspiracy to obtain property by false pretenses and exploitation of the elderly/handicapped. Two more court dates are slated for later this month, one in Forsyth County and another in Stokes, related to ⦠paving scams.
A Forsyth County judge dismissed a first-degree murder charge against a Winston-Salem woman after determining the woman will never regain the mental capacity to stand trial.
The decision came after a 2½-hour hearing in Forsyth Superior Court in which a psychologist testified that Tonesha Tonyae Collinsâ mental-health issues prevent her from fully understanding the legal situation she is in and from participating in any way in her defense.
Judge Michael Stone of Forsyth Superior Court signed an order that involuntarily commits Collins, 38, to Central Regional Hospital, where she has been for the past four years. She was initially declared mentally incompetent in August 2017.