‘Sniper was cleared’
NZPA-Reuter Honolulu A mental hospital outpatient held as a suspect in a sniper shooting that left six people wounded was examined a day earlier by specialists who found nothing unusual in his behaviour, officials say in Honolulu.
Robert Ernest Miller, aged 35, was booked for investigation of attempted murder on Saturday night, 20 minutes after a sniper opened fire on a crowd on Waikiki’s main thoroughfare. Miller was charged six years ago with wounding a woman in another sniping. A state judge dismissed an attempted murder charge in
February, 1974, after a team of psychiatrists fpund Miller mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Judge Masato Doi ordered Miller to be confined to the Hawaii State Hospital for the Mentally 111, saying he would be a danger to society, if released. Miller was allowed to leave the hospital'last April after hospital officials decided he showed no signs of psychosis or aggression. Specialists found nothing unusual about Miller’s behaviour in an interview on Friday, and the hospital then planned to seek Miller’s release from hospital supervision.
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