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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A defense lawyer is seeking a mental health evaluation for a 40-year-old man accused of beating a 51-year-old woman to death, then spending several days with her corpse before turning himself in to Las Vegas police.
Deputy Clark County Public Defender Scott Coffee said Monday he's investigating whether Tobey Michael Gibeson is competent to face criminal charges in the April 17 slaying of Gail J. Stepien.
A judge on Friday scheduled a May 29 preliminary hearing for Gibeson on a felony murder charge.
Stepien's body was discovered last Wednesday, two weeks after moving with Gibeson into an apartment near Boulder Highway casinos.
Gibeon told police he attacked Stepien with a whiskey bottle and stomped on her head early April 17, and later wrapped her body in a deflated water bed.
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