I sure hope he can find the members of that "Board" when his cravings hit.
After 10 longs years for killing a man with the ax and then eating that man's brain and eyeballs, Tyree Smith is out of the nut house. Thanks to Vanessa Cardella, Executive Director of CT Psychiatric Security Review Board, we’ve got this courageous fighter back on the streets.
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Vanessa Cardella, Executive Director of CT Psychiatric Security Review Board
Bridgeport man who killed and ate a man is released after spending 10 years in psychiatric hospital
Daniel Tepfer,
Staff Writer
Sep. 29, 2023
BRIDGEPORT – A state board ordered the release of a former Florida man, who officials said killed a homeless man and then ate his brain and eyeballs.
It was a case that made national news.
Tyree Smith, who grew up in Bridgeport and Ansonia, was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity following a trial in July 2013 and ordered committed to a state psychiatric hospital for 60 years.
But this week, the state Psychiatric Security Review Board, ruled that Smith, after spending 10 years in the state’s most secure psychiatric hospital, is ready to be transitioned into the community. He has since been released and will be living in a Waterbury group home, according to the report. He is not to associate with anyone involved in criminal activity, the report states.
“Tyree Smith is an individual with a psychiatric illness requiring care, custody and treatment," the board stated in its report. "Since his last hearing Tyree Smith has continued to demonstrate clinical stability. Mr. Smith is medication compliant, actively engaged in all recommended forms of treatment, and has been symptom-free for many years.”
Vanessa Cardella, executive director of the review board, confirmed in an email that the board had approved Smith’s application for temporary leave from the Whiting Forensic Hospital but declined comment.
During the trial Smith's cousin, Nicole Rabb, testified that in December 2011 Smith had showed up at her door in Bridgeport talking about Greek gods and ruminating about needing to go out and get blood. When she saw him the next evening she noticed what appeared to be specks of blood on his pants and that he was carrying chopsticks and a bloody ax.
Rabb said she kicked Smith out of her Seaview Avenue apartment after he told her he had killed a man with the ax and then ate the man's brain and eyeballs in the Lakeview Cemetery, while drinking sake. She said he told her he intended to eat more people here.
A month later, police found Angel Gonzalez's mutilated body in the vacant apartment on Brooks Street in Bridgeport where Smith had lived as a child.
Police later recovered the bloody ax and an empty bottle of sake in a stream bed near the Boston Avenue cemetery.
The defense's case rested mainly on the testimony of Yale University psychiatrist Dr. Reena Kapoor, who said at the time Smith retained his lust for human flesh after his arrest, even offering to eat her.
Kapoor claimed Smith suffered from psychotic incidents since childhood and heard voices that told him to kill people. She said the voices ordered Smith to eat the victim's brain so they would get a better understanding of human behavior and the eyes so that they could see into the "spirit realm."
She said Smith went to Subway after eating the man's body parts.
The board’s report states that Smith has denied auditory or visual hallucinations and stated he had not heard voices in many years. It continues that he denied suicidal and homicidal ideation and there was no evidence of “internal preoccupation or paranoia.”
“He denied experiencing cravings but stated that if they were to arise, he would reach out to his hospital and community supports and providers,” the report states.
A state psychiatric board released Tyree Smith, who was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, after he said he has not had hallucinations in years.
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Seeing a pattern here...
Permanently-Disabled Former Cop Begs State To Keep Her Attacker In Maximum Security Facility
Sandy Malone
January 30, 2023
Middletown, CT – A state psychiatric review board completely ignored the emotional plea of a former Hartford police officer who begged them not to transfer her would-be killer into a less-secure psychiatric facility.
The incident occurred on May 17, 2018, when Hartford police officers responded to a call about a dispute between and landlord and tenant at an apartment complex,
WTIC reported.
Police said that Chevoughn Augustin had torn down bulletins from the walls of the building prompting the 911 call.
Then-Hartford Police Officer Jill Kidik knocked on Augustin’s door and had a conversation with the woman, but sensed that something was amiss with the woman’s mental state and called for an ambulance,
CT Insider reported.
That was when Augustin, a woman with a documented history of schizophrenia and mental health episodes, grabbed Officer Kidik by the hair and dragged her into the apartment.
She attacked the officer with a butcher knife she fished from her kitchen drawer.
Police said Augustin stabbed Officer Kidik multiple times in the neck and caused permanent damage to the officer’s throat,
WFSB reported.
She was acquitted of stabbing the officer in August of 2021 by reason of insanity but was committed to 38 years in Whiting Forensic Hospital, a maximum-security psychiatric facility, WTIC reported.
But on Jan. 5, Augustin was transferred to the less-secure Dutcher unit within the Whiting hospital complex, CT Insider reported.
While Augustin should have been safely locked away in a maximum security facility for most of her life, a new Connecticut law that went into effect in October of 2022 allows acquitted people to be transferred to at the discretion of the facility’s superintendent and risk management review committee, according to Vanessa Cardella, the psychiatric review board’s executive director.
Cardella said the board received noticed in late December that the hospital intended to transfer Augustin and scheduled a public hearing on the transfer, CT Insider reported.
In the new facility, Augustin can participate in staff-supervised group outings outside the hospital and in the community and have alone time on the hospital campus.
In January, the now-former Hartford police officer appeared before Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board and pleaded with the panel not to release the woman who tried to kill her into a less-secure psychiatric environment.
Detective Kidik – she was promoted after she survived the attack – was a 13-year veteran of the police force when complications from injuries during the attack forced her medical retirement in 2019, WTIC reported.
“There are two other men who saw her lunge an eight-inch butcher knife through my trachea,” the former officer told the review board. “So to hear my injuries listed as a ‘laceration’ to my neck, my throat doesn’t work, I can’t swallow water without choking, I can’t eat a hamburger, I can’t cry because everything seizes up.”
“I got stabbed in the back of my neck as I was trying to run away from her and she found a cooking pot and knocked me unconscious after she hunted for that knife,” Kidik continued.
“This was not a crime of opportunity, she held me by my hair and dragged me across the floor to find that knife,” the brave hero explained.
“I can still remember every spoon being taken out, ever spatula until she had the knife, was so satisfied in that moment,” she recalled.
“I still chose not to pull my gun, I showed no threat to her, I had every intent on helping her that day and getting her eviction thrown out because I could tell she needed someone and I was that someone stupidly enough,” Kidik told the psychiatric review panel.
But despite Kidik’s appearance and emotional testimony at the hearing, the state review panel voted 5-to-0 on Jan. 27 to uphold the hospital’s decision to transfer Augustin out of maximum security,
CT Insider reported.
Middletown, CT – A state psychiatric review board completely ignored the emotional plea of a former Hartford police officer who begged them not to transfer her would-be killer into a less-secure psychiatric facility. The incident occurred on May 17, 2018, when Hartford police officers responded...
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Former Hartford police officer decries transfer of psychiatric patient who nearly killed her
Former Hartford Police Officer Jill Kidik had a say on how long the woman who nearly killed her by stabbing her in the neck in 2018 was to be committed. The nearly 40-year term at Connecticut's maximum-security mental health hospital “was fair for the amount of life she took from me,” Kidik said.
In the past, these hearings were required before a patient who had been acquitted of a crime could be moved to a less restrictive environment.
Former Hartford Police Officer Jill Kidik blasted the decision to move her attacker, Chevoughn Augustin, to a less secure settling at Whiting Forensic Hospital.
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Woman who stabbed, nearly killed former Hartford police Officer Jill Kidik acquitted due to mental illness, to be evaluated at Whiting Forensic Hospital
HARTFORD, Conn — The woman accused of trying to kill Hartford police officer Jill Kidik was reportedly acquitted on Wednesday due to her mental health status.
The Hartford Court
reported that Chevoughn Augustin was acquitted due to her documented history of schizophrenia and mental health episodes. She is now set for further psychiatric evaluations and scheduled for a commitment hearing.
The woman who stabbed and nearly killed former Hartford police Officer Jill Kidik inside a downtown apartment three years ago was found Wednesday to have committed the attack but she was acquitted …
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