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A homeless man charged with assaulting two women and beating a man to death in just hours in Seattle has been charged with staying in jail without court-ordered mental health treatment. It is expected to receive more than $36,000 from taxpayers.
Alexander Jay, 40, was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and second-degree assault resulting from three separate attacks that took place over 12 hours in March.
He is accused of beating 31-year-old Brent Wood to death on March 3. Hours after Jay allegedly threw a woman down the stairs at Seattle’s Union Station, Jay allegedly stabbed her after breaking her bones. Another woman at a bus stop, an attack that happened just minutes after the incident at the station.
Jay has been in prison since March and is expected to face an aptitude hearing on his murder charges before his trial begins, King 5 reported this week. I had already decided that I was not qualified to stand on the
Washington pays Seattle suspect $250 daily for no mental health treatment: report
Jay’s case got complicated in April, when a judge ordered Jay to undergo three months of inpatient treatment at a mental health facility so he could understand the charges being made against him.
However, Jay remains in prison at King County Jail because there was not enough space in the mental health facility, which is represented by the Department of State’s Department of Social Health Services (DSHS). told Fox 13.
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In June, a judge ruled that DSHS must pay Jay $250 for each day he remains in prison in exchange for treatment for his mental health.
DSHS expects a bed to be made for him at Western State Hospital by Oct. 2, a DSHS representative told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. The state owes him his $36,750 by that date, according to Fox 13.
A judge this month changed the order so that Jay would not receive the payment directly, instead directing that the payment be made to a “protected beneficiary or agreed responsible adult.” DSHS reported Fox News He told Digital that no payment had been made to Jay as of Tuesday.
News of the payment sparked the outrage of the family of the man Jay allegedly fatally injured.
“It’s ridiculous. It’s not right. He shouldn’t be getting the money,” Nathan Wood, Brent Wood’s brother, told Fox 13.
DSHS has also spoken out against the payment.
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“As a department, we stand against the payment of these compensatory sanctions because we are taking appropriate steps and steps to provide these services to clients awaiting inpatient services. We believe these fines take money out of the very system, designed to help and serve them,” the ministry said in a statement, Fox 13.
Jay isn’t the only one waiting for a bed at a state-run mental health facility. According to the outlet, he’s joined by hundreds of other people. The state has so far paid him $93,700 to people in similar situations, and he faces $88,150 in pending payments, including Jay’s.
DSHS told Fox 13 it plans to add 60 beds to the facility by the fall.
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Jay is in jail on $650,000 bail for two counts of assault and $5 million for murder charges. has a criminal record.
Fox News Digital’s Stephen Sorace contributed to this article.