By Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press
OREGON CITY, Ore. — An Oregon man who decapitated his mother on Mother’s Day and then walked into a grocery store holding her head has been committed to a state mental hospital.
Clackamas County Judge Robert Herndon ruled Tuesday that Joshua Lee Webb qualified for a plea of guilty by reason of insanity because of a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
The judge noted that Webb still hears voices despite a year on anti-psychotic medications.
Joshua Webb has been committed to a state mental hospital after being found guilty by reason of insanity for decapitating his mother in Colton, Oregon, on Mother’s Day, 2017. (Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
Tina Webb’s headless body was discovered by her daughter who had arrived at the family home in Colton, Oregon for a Mother’s Day celebration.
Joshua Webb’s dog was also stabbed to death.
Webb was arrested at a grocery store in nearby Estacada, Oregon after he walked in holding his mother’s head and then stabbed an employee multiple times.
That man survived.
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