LAKE COUNTY — In August of this year Alan Leroy Ashmore, 62, the man accused of killing two people and the attempted murder of three others including a California Highway Patrol Officer in an October 2017 shooting spree, pled not guilty by reason of insanity.
Ashmore was in custody and appeared at the Lake County Superior Court for a recent hearing.
The doctors’ reports of Dr. Kasti and Dr. Taylor, which contain the evaluation of Ashmore’s mental capacity, were received in court and the matter was set for trial.
The Clearlake Oaks man was held to answer on the homicides of his father Douglas Ashmore and Richard Braden and the attempted murders of CHP Officer Steven Patrick, Harold Noell, and Mauro Lopez.
There has been a trial readiness/settlement conference set for December 21 at 9:00 a.m. in Department Three and a master calendar call hearing set for January 11, 2019. The Jury Trial/Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity has been set for January 16, 2019 at 8:15 a.m. in a department to be announced.
The defendant remains in custody and is ordered to be present on all dates.
Preliminary hearing vacated in attempted murder trial
A Lakeport man charged with attempted murder to an elderly will face a jury trial in January.
Steven Michael Fredericks, 49, was in custody and recently appeared at the Lake County Superior Court in Lakeport for a master calendar call. The preliminary hearing which was scheduled to be heard October 24th has been vacated.
Defense Attorney Edward Savin filed a motion this month to continue with the Court this morning and there was no opposition.
Fredericks is charged with two counts of murder, attempted murder, causing injury to an elder adult and assault with a deadly weapon.
The charges stem from an incident in March of this year when Lake County Sheriff Deputies responded to reports of a stabbing just after 6:30 a.m. in the 6300 block of Lyons Road, across Highway 29 from the Nice-Lucerne cutoff exit. When deputies arrived they located a man dead at the scene from what looked to be stab wounds. Also at the scene was a woman suffering from cuts to her neck — she was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital.
Witnesses at the scene identified Fredericks as the suspect, informing deputies he had fled to a nearby patch of woods immediately after the incident. Fredericks emerged from the woods and surrendered.
The Court, pursuant to the request of the defendant, ordered this matter to be continued as follows: Master calendar call hearing has been scheduled for January 18, 2019 at 8:15 a.m. in Department Two with the jury trial scheduled for January 24, 2019 at 8:15 a.m. in Department Two. The defendant is ordered to be present and remains in custody with bail set at $1,275,000.
