Lex Ashton’s defense filed an appeal for a judge to modify the precautionary measure of preventive detention, so that the young man would be admitted to a mental health institution instead of being imprisoned.
Mexico City, October 19 (However).- Lex Ashton “N” will remain taken in it Prison East of the Mexico City (CdMx) after a Control Judge refused to change the precautionary measure that was imposed on him, during a audience celebrated this Sunday.
The young man, 19 years old, was linked to process for the crimes of homicide qualified y attempted murder after being identified as the perpetrator of the attack that occurred on September 22 in the College of Sciences and Humanities south campus (CCH On), which left a student dead and a worker injured.
The defense of the accused filed an amparo suit with the purpose of modifying the precautionary measure so that he can remain hospitalized in a mental health center while the judicial process against him develops.
In a hearing held this Sunday at the headquarters of the Superior Court of Justice of the CdMxlocated in the Doctores neighborhood, the Control Judge determined to modify the precautionary measure imposed on Lex Ashton, from informal preventive detention to justified.
According to statements by the young man’s defense attorney, David Retes, the Public Ministry argued that the accused represents a danger to society, which is why the judicial authority determined that he should remain in detention.
“I am not interested in taking him home because of course not, since as they have been mentioning, this is a person who has poor mental health and obviously the idea is to admit him to a hospital specializing in mental health,” said the litigant.
Lex Ashton “N”, 19 years old, will remain imprisoned in the Reclusorio Oriente of CdMx while the process against him is carried out after being linked to proceedings for the crimes of aggravated homicide and attempted homicide.
It is worth mentioning that the young man was allegedly motivated to commit the attack by a social media community of “incels”, men who call themselves “involuntarily celibate” and who spread messages of hate against women.