University of Calgary students and staff sign condolences on a University of Calgary banner during a memorial service for victims of the multiple fatal stabbing in northwest Calgary, Alberta on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougal
The Canadian Press
CALGARY - The man charged in Calgary’s worst mass murder has been transferred to a psychiatric facility.
Matthew de Grood, the son of a senior police officer, faces charges of first-degree murder after five university and college students were stabbed at a house party.
Lawyer Allan Fay says a justice of the peace ordered his client to receive a psychiatric assessment at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre.
De Grood is to remain in custody there and is to next appear in court April 22.
Fay says his client is doing as well as can be expected and seems to be lucid.
A justice official says two Crown prosecutors from Edmonton have been assigned to the case to address any perceived conflict.
