LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – A Lincoln woman who killed two maintenance workers at the Lodge Apartments in 2023 will undergo another mental evaluation.
On May 24, a Lancaster County judge ruled that 28-year-old Taylor Bradley was not responsible by reason of insanity for the murders of 42-year-old Chris Karmazin and 45-year-old Ronald Gonzalez.
According to court records, the judge ruled Tuesday that Bradley is a danger to himself or others and may continue to be a danger in the foreseeable future.
Lancaster County Judge Ryan Post ordered Lincoln Regional Center to conduct an evaluation and develop a treatment plan for Bradley within 90 days of his hospitalization.
Bradley is currently being held in the Lancaster County Jail where she will remain until a bed is available. Once her evaluation at the regional center is complete, she will be returned to the jail.
Lincoln Regional Center must send the evaluation report and treatment plan to the court no later than 10 days before the end of the evaluation period.
Bradley is scheduled to appear at his next court hearing on Aug. 23 at 11 a.m.
This is Bradley’s second time being sent to the regional center and her third comprehensive mental health evaluation since Karmazin and Gonzalez were killed.
Investigators arrived at the lodge on March 27, 2023, and found Karmazin and Gonzalez dead, having apparently been hit by a vehicle. Bradley was arrested a few blocks away and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
According to the affidavit, Bradley attempted to strike a third maintenance worker, who then left the job.
On May 24, a judge found that at the time of the crimes, Bradley was suffering from a mental illness and was “experiencing significant delusions, manic episodes and psychosis” and therefore was unable to understand the nature and consequences of what she was doing. Furthermore, she “was unable to distinguish right from wrong in relation to what she was doing,” according to the ruling.
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