A Pittsburgh-area psychiatric hospital has refused to treat a 16-year-old boy awaiting trial on charges he stabbed 20 fellow students and a security guard at his western Pennsylvania high school in April.
Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Southwood Psychiatric Hospital in Upper St. Clair determined over the weekend that they had security and other concerns about treating Alex Hribal of Murrysville.
A county judge on Friday had ordered that Hribal be moved from a juvenile detention center to a secure mental health facility where he could be treated for what defense experts say is the early stages of schizophrenia. A prosecution doctor recommended Hribal stay in juvenile detention and have a doctor brought in to treat him.
Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey wrote in a June motion that Alex Hribal of Murrysville continues to "deteriorate" in the Westmoreland County juvenile detention center, where was held after being arrested on April 9.
Hribal's attorney was continuing to search for an alternative facility Tuesday.
Expert witnesses hired by the defense testified Friday that Hribal was motivated by the Columbine massacre and hoped to die in the attack.
