KANSAS CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to set a hearing to discuss the mental health of a man charged with killing six people in Kansas and Missouri.
The U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis filed a motion asking for a hearing to determine if 26-year-old Perez Deshay Reed, of Bellefontaine Neighbors, is mentally competent to stand trial on federal gun charges, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Reed is charged in federal court with transporting a gun across state lines with the intent to commit a felony.
He is also charged with killing two people in St. Louis, two others in St. Louis County and two in Kansas City, Kansas, in September and October.
Prosecutors believe Reed used the same weapon in all six killings.
State prosecutors had not filed a similar request for a mental exam. Reed, who is due in St. Louis Circuit Court on Jan. 26, is currently jailed without bail. Reed has pleaded not guilty to the charges.