PHOENIX (AP) — A man charged with killing the operator of a speed-camera van along a Phoenix freeway wept in court during a Tuesday hearing.
Commissioner Patricia Arnold set two court dates for next month during the short hearing for 68-year-old Thomas Patrick Destories.
Destories sat quietly and appeared to fall asleep at one point as he waited for the hearing. But he began crying and lowered his head when Arnold set the court dates for him. His lawyer told him not to worry and Destories was escorted back to jail.
Destories had been scheduled for trial Jan. 11, but that was delayed after his attorney requested that he undergo a psychological evaluation. The Jeep tour operator is charged with first-degree murder, drive-by shooting and firing a gun at a structure in the death of Doug Georgianni last April.
