A man charged with capital murder in the fatal 2021 hatchet and shovel attack on another man in Mobile County was found not guilty by reason of insanity by the judge presiding over his case.
Erik Christopher Perez, 39, of Mobile, had been charged with capital murder in the death of 53-year-old Clinton Maxwell Phillips in Grand Bay.
In December 2022, Perez changed his plea from not guilty to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, according to Mobile County court records.
Perez had a bench trial presided over by Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Michael Windom, who found Perez not guilty Monday by reason of insanity, Fox 10 reported.
Windom’s verdict was not yet in online court records.
Windom scheduled a hearing for July 11 and indicated that he will have Perez involuntarily committed.
