BOSTON (WHDH) - A man who Boston police say randomly stabbed a female jogger in the head on the Charles River Esplanade on Friday will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Luis Olivo was scheduled to appear in Boston Municipal Court Monday on charges including armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, aggravated assault and battery, assault and battery, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.
A doctor told Judge Tracy-Lee Lyons that Olivo is “clearly acutely psychotic.”
“He’s got conspiratorial delusions, thought disorganization. He’s very tangential. Asked if I knew Hillary Clinton. Thinks that his family is targeted for killing. He’s just very, very psychotic,” the doctor continued.
Lyons declined to arraign Olivo and instead ordered him held without bail while he undergoes an evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital.
His next court appearance is slated for July 19.
Olivo, who has past addresses in Boston and Everett, is accused of tackling a 23-year-old Allston woman to the ground on a footbridge that runs parallel to the intersection of Dartmouth Street and Storrow Drive and stabbing her with scissors, according to a state police spokesman.
The woman was taken to Massachusetts General Hosptial to be treated for a non-life-threatening laceration to her head.
The 37-year-old man was apprehended after a brief foot pursuit and struggle, during which a trooper discharged a stun gun to subdue him, state police said.
A worker at Buttermilk and Bourbon on Commonwealth Avenue says Olivo ditched the scissors police believe he used in the attack on an outdoor patio as the trooper gave chase.
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