HOUSTON-An attorney for a Houston man accused of fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy at a gas station last year said Wednesday he disagrees with a state mental hospital's finding that his client is competent to stand trial and the issue will likely end up having to be decided by a jury.
Shannon Miles had spent several months at the North Texas State Hospital after he was ruled incompetent to stand trial for the August 2015 killing of Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Goforth.
Prosecutors say Goforth, 47, was filling his squad car at a suburban Houston gas station when Miles shot him 15 times. They allege he attacked the deputy because he was a law enforcement officer.
Miles, 32, was returned to the Harris County Jail in Houston in September after doctors at the hospital concluded he was competent to be tried for capital murder.
But during a court hearing Wednesday, Anthony Osso, one of Miles' defense attorneys, said his client is still unable to help in his own defense.