Mark Mechikoff
The man accused of stabbing a woman and posting a Facebook video of the victim covered in blood was found not competent to stand trial June 27, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Mark Mechikoff, 39, of Pacifica, is alleged to have stabbed Claribel Estrella to death on her kitchen floor and posted a Facebook video of her still alive and covered in blood.
A woman saw the post while in Florida and called a Sheriff’s Office in Nevada to report the crime because it was the last place she knew Mechikoff lived.
From there, that Sheriff’s Office pinpointed the Facebook posting to the Bay Area and reached out to the San Mateo Police Department.
San Mateo police conducted a search of the apartment complex at the 200 block of 37th Avenue. After the door-to-door search, officers found Estrella dead on the kitchen floor. Mechikoff was found and arrested a few hours later in San Jose, according to the DA’s Office.
He will receive a placement report on Aug. 13, Wagstaffe said.
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the question for our society is where should this man be incarcerated and isolated from society? and is there anyone who thinks someone like this can be rehabilitated and returned to society? We need to re invent state mental hospitals quickly.
Good questions, brewster1. How about this man be incarcerated and isolated from society in the homes of the people who found him not competent to stand trial? Or the homes of folks who think he can be rehabilitated and returned to society. Or, maybe Newsom will release him back into the Bay Area wild due to COVID and overcrowding, similar to what Newsom did with convicted felons.
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