The results of psychological tests administered to McGriff in jail indicated he was faking symptoms of mental illness, Myers said.
But neither condition put McGriff in a state where he was not sane, Myers said. He also diagnosed him with schizotypal personality disorder, a condition marked by social isolation and eccentric, paranoid or delusional thinking. Myers, the state’s expert, said McGriff has personality disorder characterized by antisocial tendencies. It’s not a drug that doctors would give to someone who wasn’t suffering from a severe mental illness, he said. Michael Maher, a forensic psychiatrist, told the jury that McGriff now takes twice the maximum dosage of a powerful antipsychotic drug. Dunn?” asked Assistant Public Defender Jamie Kane. He believed other people nearby could hear his thoughts. He was hesitant to get on the bus but needed a ride. The voices began to persecute him, accusing him of having HIV. He was listening to music and felt that the voices were responding to the tunes. He started hearing voices while waiting for the bus, she said. Several jurors shuffled the pages of their notepads to write as the psychologist read notes from a forensic interview in which McGriff described what was going through his mind just before the stabbing. He returned to jail later that year, heavily medicated with antipsychotic drugs. He was sent to a state hospital for treatment. He believed that parasitic aliens were inhabiting human bodies and that he had special knowledge that made him a target for elimination.Īfter that first examination in 2019, Barror-Levine said McGriff was not competent to proceed in court. He spoke of being an angel and said he was from the planet Jupiter. He would ramble, and stated his name was “Justice,” Barror-Levine said. He spoke of sorcerers and people plotting against him.īarror-Levine, the psychologist, who examined McGriff after his arrest, told the jury that in their first meeting he exhibited intense delusions and hallucinations. He began to withdraw from his family, accusing an uncle of being part of a conspiracy. In Florida, his condition seemed to worsen. He has been charged with first-degree murder.McGriff eventually left Oklahoma for Tampa, where he had extended relatives. Police apprehended McGriff a few hours later. The guy is actually dead right now, the driver." We was on the bus at it was driving so he jumped off as it was still moving. The operator asks if the assailant is still on the bus. "This guy just stabbed the bus driver in the neck," the caller says over the sound of other passengers shouting in the background. A recording of the call shows the chaos that erupted following the stabbing. Terrified passengers who witnessed the incident called police at 4:15 p.m to report Saturday's killing. Dunn was able to bravely pull the bus over to the side of the road to save his passengers from an accident. The cut severed Dunn's carotid and jugular arteries. As Thomas Dunn, 46, drove the public bus down Nebraska Avenue during their argument, McGriff walked up to him brought out a sharp weapon and slashed Dunn's throat after telling him, "God bless you," twice. Justin McGriff was on a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit bus on Saturday afternoon when he began arguing with the driver.
A bus passenger has been charged with murder after he slit the throat of a bus driver in Tampa, Florida.
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