A man who murdered his landlord more than three years ago is now blaming his actions on allegedly being possessed by Jay-Z, according to two psychologists who have examined him to determine his fitness for trial.
Psychologist Dr. Duke Wagner claims that the rapper and music mogul “has been a constant figure” in the life of 39-year-old Jason Russell Jump, the man being accused of second degree-murder for allegedly killing James V. Johns.
Johns was a 54-year-old wheelchair user, who was killed with a sharp instrument used by Jump on December 16th, 2012.Wagner declared that Jump was too unfit to stand trial. He claims that Jump currently suffers from persecutory delusional disorder and that he isn’t faking his symptoms or illness.“I think the consistency of psychotic symptoms and especially something that’s delusional in nature, it’s hard to maintain the nature, and, let’s say, the exactness of the content,” Wagner said. “People that are malingering are going to make mistakes as far as accuracy. They’re not going to be consistent over years in remembering exactly what to say, to say it in a similar or the same manner and … do this in a free-floating manner. He was consistent in that sense.”
Witnesses claimed that Jump was intoxicated during the attack and that “people who are intoxicated will say all sorts of things.”
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