Jonathan Bun, charged with shooting a Clayton County sheriff's deputy last month, has been found mentally competent to stand trial, his attorney told the AJC.
Lloyd Matthews said the evaluation was completed much quicker than anticipated. Bun, meanwhile, was in Clayton County State Court on Monday for sentencing on charges unrelated to the July 20 shooting that killed Clayton County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Daly.
The 17-year-old, who is being held without bond on the murder charge, had been charged with marijuana possession stemming from an incident on his birthday when he was caught smoking marijuana with friends at an abandoned home, Channel 2 Action News reports. He was also charged with criminal trespassing and loitering. He received a two-year sentence on those charges Monday.
A month after he was cited for those misdemeanors, Bun was identified as a suspect in the Jan. 27 armed robbery of a Forest Park gift shop. Daly was attempting to arrest Bun, who has a history of run-ins with the law dating back to the age of 13, for that robbery on the day he was killed.
Bun faces life in prison without parole if found guilty in Daly's slaying.
Updates to come.
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