Ramone Waupoose (Brown Co. Jail)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A teenager upset with his mother for deleting rap videos on his phone facing an attempted homicide charge after allegedly attacking her with a hedge trimmer is not competent to stand trial, according to a recent report, but a judge may order an update due to developments in the case since then.
Ramone Waupoose, 16, was charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless injury for the July 16 incident at a Suamico home.
At the initial appearance, his attorney, Michael Crosby, raised a concern about Waupoose’s competency. That’s his ability to understand the court proceedings and assist in his own defense.
In court Monday, it was revealed that a competency exam ordered in a juvenile case showed he is not competent to stand trial.
That psychiatric exam pertained to juvenile court proceedings, however, and was done before the charges were filed in adult court. Because adult court procedures are different and the potential penalties are more significant, Judge Tammy Jo Hock wants that report updated.
However, the court wants to consult with the examiner about the logistics of what can be done, and on what timeline. As such, another hearing was scheduled for Monday afternoon.
In Wisconsin, those between 10 and 16 years old charged with most homicide-related counts are charged in adult, not juvenile court. There is a mechanism at a later stage of the case for the defense to request the case be moved to juvenile court, but such requests are not automatic and require a judge’s approval.
According to the criminal complaint, a woman called police because her son, who she described as autistic, had attacked her.
Knowing he may be upset – and for his protection – the woman had taken all of the knives out of the house and put them in her car.
“This all started on Monday, Ramone was supper ubber ubber pissed that he was snatched back after running away. He was also mad that I had deleted rap videos off of his youtube. He went to bed Monday night and I was on his phone trying to figure out the parental controls. He came up and grabbed the phone from my hands and went to lock himself in his room downstairs,” the woman’s statement says. “Ramone went back to his room and I again texted him about going to eat and asked if he was going to come. He replied back “no”. I told him to not leave the house and I monitored him through the cameras. I could tell that he was very angry. When he ate he was pacing like a caged tiger. His behavior got creepier after we got home then started to gather up all the knives, any sharp kitchen utensils, or anything sharp. I also took the drill, hammers, and screw drivers and locked them in my car. I watched the cameras and saw Ramone go to the garage and was searching for something. He was looking around the toolbox and a mattress that was leaned up next to it. His whole behavior really freaked me out. The sheers he found must have been behind the mattress. At this time I was more concerned that Ramone was going to hurt himself than us. I never thought he would run away much less attack us.”
After the lights starting turning on and off in the house, she found him by the power box. He called her names, and attacked her with the pruning shears. She used a garbage can to defend herself before she escaped.
The woman was bleeding from the face and was injured on her head, face, arms and back. Police located two-foot pruning shears from the scene.
Police recovered Waupoose’s phone and found messages describing his plans to kill his mother and messages threatening to “kill and gut his ex-girlfriend,” the complaint states.
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