Dominguez competency trial begins on Monday

By lAuren keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND

— Attorneys in the Carlos Reales Dominguez case made brief appearances Wednesday in Yolo Superior Court to confirm a competency trial for the former UC Davis student charged with murder and attempted murder.

DOMINGUEZ Mental status at issue

A jury will determine whether Dominguez, 21, is mentally fit to stand trial for the late April stabbing deaths of Davis residents David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm, as well as the May 1 knife attack on Kimberlee Guillory. Dominguez’s public defender, Dan Hutchinson, declared a doubt regarding Dominguez’s competency back in May, stalling the criminal proceedings while Dominguez underwent an evaluation by a court-appointed psychiatrist who deemed him incompetent.

Yolo County prosecutors disputed that conclusion, however, demanding

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Driver, 20, dies in I-80 crash

California Highway

Patrol officers responded to a fatal collision Wednesday night on Interstate 80 east of Davis.

Officer Rodney Fitzhugh said a Honda traveled off the roadway at a high rate of speed and overturned along eastbound I-80 near the Webster interchange at about 10:10 p.m.

The driver, identified by a Yolo County coroner’s official as 20-yearold Nikolas Ramalho of Sacramento, succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

Impairment by alcohol or drugs was believed to be a factor in the crash, Fitzhugh said. Contact the Woodland CHP office at 530-662-4685 with any information about this incident.