OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ruled that an Omaha man convicted of killing four people in the summer of 2013 is mentally fit enough to face a death penalty hearing.
The Omaha World-Herald reports that Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon on Tuesday declared Nikko Jenkins competent. His death penalty hearing has been set for Nov. 14, when Jenkins will go before a three-judge panel that will decide whether his crimes merit the death penalty.
The hearing has been delayed several times as mental health evaluations sought to determine whether Jenkins, who has mutilated himself multiple times in prison, is mentally competent.
Jenkins was convicted in 2014 of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger.
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