Francisco Severo Torres, the person accused of inflicting a terrifying scramble aboard a United flight from L.A. to Boston, will bear a psychological analysis in opposition to his personal needs.
Torres, 33, of Leominster, who has repeatedly claimed that God has renamed him “Balthazar,” is accused of making an attempt to open a door aboard United Flight 2609 on Sunday, and attempting to stab — and efficiently hitting — a flight attendant with a steel spoon.
He’s additionally accused of shouting weird and horrifying statements like, “I will kill every man on this plane” and that he wished Homeland Security to point out up and shoot him so he may “show everybody that I won’t die when I take every bullet in that clip.” He additionally purportedly mentioned that he was “taking over this plane” and that there can be “a bloodbath” upon touchdown.
The flight’s passengers and crew ended up tackling him after which restraining him all through the flight. He was taken into custody when the airplane landed at Logan International Airport that night. He allegedly advised police that he knew opening the door would result in different folks dying, in keeping with an affidavit within the case.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Judith Dein ordered the psychological analysis, together with a dedication of a minimal of 30 days in an applicable psychological facility, over Torres’ objection to any such analysis. She additionally “strongly” urged him in opposition to his needs to make an announcement at his listening to in federal courtroom in Boston’s Seaport Thursday afternoon.
“The God, the Son and the Holy Spirit say that I should,” Torres, wearing a khaki jail jumpsuit as he was ordered detained at a short look Monday, mentioned from his seat, including that as a result of such highly effective forces wished it, that he should. But, after a fast convention together with his lawyer, he mentioned he would let Dein resolve. She suggested him to not and he complied.
Torres did, nonetheless, make an announcement as he was led out of the courtroom: “I’ve been renamed Balthazar by God. … B.A.L.T.H.A.Z.A.R., Balthazar.”
Balthazar is the identify of one of many holy Magi who visited the infant Jesus within the New Testament of the Bible. While Torres has made a number of statements knowledgeable by Abrahamic religions, he has not explicitly said that that is the individual he takes the identify from.
Torres has hung out on the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital, in opposition to which he filed a medical malpractice declare — whereas representing himself — claiming that he was falsely identified with a psychological well being prognosis amongst different wide-ranging complaints.
A Tuesday e-mail launched within the case particulars an alleged assault on a workers member at Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island, the place Torres was detained following his preliminary look on Monday. That night time, the e-mail states, Torres went as much as an officer and struck him within the face, continued the assault at the same time as one other officer sprayed him with a “chemical agent” and solely stopped when he was bodily restrained on the bottom.
Reports from the Fitchburg and Leominster police departments present allegations of weird and violent conduct stretching again to April 15, 2015.
That night time, a Fitchburg officer interviewing Torres as a suspect for an armed theft indicated it was his opinion that Torres “could also be affected by some kind of Mental Illness in that he started speaking in regards to the patriot Missile act, and asking if he appeared like a Terrorist. He simply didn’t appear to be regular to me, though he was very well mannered and completely cooperative.
Those stories proceed to as just lately as final month, Feb. 25, a day a Leominster police officer filed a report that mentioned a caller reported that Torres had entered a barbershop and began saying that he wished to die at midnight and saved his arms in his pockets as if “pretending that he had a weapon of some kind.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”