For other crimes, the judge must order the defendant committed to a state 24-hour facility designated pursuant to G.S. If the crime with which the defendant was charged involved the infliction or attempted infliction of serious physical injury or death, the defendant must be committed to Central Regional Hospital in Butner (formerly, Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh). When a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity, the presiding judge must enter an order committing the defendant to a state mental health facility. Yes, but as evidenced by Williamson’s long term of commitment, it is a steep hill for an inpatient like him to climb. Are defendants like Williamson who are charged with homicide and found not guilty by reason of insanity ever released from state hospitalization? He was involuntarily committed to a state mental health hospital, where he will remain until he can demonstrate that he (1) no longer has a mental illness or (2) is no longer dangerous to others. What happened next for Williamson is what happens to all criminal defendants acquitted by reason of insanity. The jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. Williamson, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, was tried for murder. He shot and killed two people that afternoon: Ralph Walker, Jr., a 42-year-old Chapel Hill resident, and twenty-year-old Kevin Reichardt, who was a sophomore at UNC and a member of the university’s lacrosse team. The shooter was Wendell Williamson, a third-year student at UNC law.
Just about anyone who was a student at Carolina in 1995 remembers where they were on January 26 of that year when they heard that a gunman carrying a World-War-II-era rifle had opened fire on passersby as he walked down Henderson Street shortly after lunchtime.
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