ATLANTA — A woman who was charged with killing two men and injuring another during a shooting spree in Midtown Atlanta in August 2022 was deemed not competent to stand trial, a judge ruled on Friday.
Raissa Kengne was charged with two counts of murder after she allegedly gunned down 60-year-old Michael Shinners and 41-year-old Wesley Freeman at 1280 West Peachtree St. on Aug. 22, 2022, in a "targeted" attack that forced businesses to go on lockdown in Colony Square.
The suspect then hopped inside a taxi and rode all the way down to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where she was arrested hours later and has been in jail ever since.
On Friday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura L. Ingram ruled that Kengne was not competent to stand trial and that she must be committed to the care of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.
The ruling from the judge reads that Kengne "is incapable of understanding the nature of the charges against (her) or of understanding the object of the proceedings against (her) and is incapable of rendering (her) attorney the proper assistance in (her) defense."
Information about the shooting
Atlanta Police were first called 1280 W. Peachtree Street around 1:45 p.m. on Monday. They found two people suffering from gunshot wounds. That's where she allegedly shot Shinners, who later died, and shot a man named Mike Horne, who survived his injuries.
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While investigating that scene, they were called to 1100 Peachtree Street around 2 p.m., where another person was injured. That's where police say Kengne shot and killed Freeman at a nearby office building down the road.
The suspect left the scene and was believed to be heading in the direction of Colony Square. A tipster led officers to the airport where she was ultimately taken into custody. A police report said she took a taxi to the airport.
Documents showed two of the victims were among dozens named in a job discrimination lawsuit filed by Kengne, one of two lawsuits she was a part of, against the building management of the 1280 West condominium. In a federal civil suit, she claimed to be a whistleblower, and the company and the managers involved violated her civil rights and financial regulations.
Shinners worked at Beacon Management, which manages the condo building where Kengne lived and where the shooting began. Documents reviewed by 11Alive showed she was angry both with the property management company and BDO, an accounting firm, where she had worked in a unit directed by Freeman.
Kengne alleged in her legal filings both fraud at BDO and that her apartment had been broken into - which she accused the property management company of perpetrating from the inside, in order to steal "evidence" out of her safe related to the lawsuits.
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