He then drove to Greenwich Village and shot at two strangers at Washington and 10th Streets. 357 magnum revolver, two semiautomatic pistols and an Uzi, and on the way back to New York he robbed a bank, according to the court account. The next day he stole his father's car and drove to Virginia, where he robbed a gun store, taking a. Crumpley still had a dangerous mental disorder and should be retained in a maximum security hospital, Mr. Richard Sternberg, a psychologist at the Kirby center, testified that Mr. But that verdict was vacated on appeal the next year when the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court found that ''the dangerous mental disorder'' that caused the shooting persisted.Īt yesterday's hearing, which was closed to the public by Stanley Parness, an administrative judge, Dr. In 1994, after a hearing similar to the one held yesterday, a jury ruled that Mr. Crumpley is no longer dangerously ill, Mr. Doctors have testified for 15 years that Mr. Crumpley's psychiatrist and an independent psychiatrist appointed by the court have both testified that he is no longer dangerously mentally ill and can safely be transferred to a hospital where he could have grounds privileges. Prosecutors contend that he remains a danger to society.
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He is opposing the latest application by the State Department of Mental Hygiene for an order to keep him at Kirby or another maximum security facility.
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Crumpley has been held in a series of secure psychiatric centers since 1981, when he was found not guilty of two counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder by reason of insanity. He said at the time that he believed gay men were agents of the devil, stalking him and ''trying to steal my soul just by looking at me.''īut at a hearing yesterday at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Wards Island, he testified that he was no longer suffering from a dangerous mental disorder and would like to be released or at least transferred to a minimum security hospital, said Wayne Brison, a spokesman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
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Crumpley, 59, has admitted that he suffered from paranoid delusions about homosexuals when he opened fire outside the Ramrod Bar on Nov. A man who shot and killed two people and wounded six others outside a Greenwich Village gay bar in 1980 is seeking to be released from the maximum security hospital where he has been held for the last 14 years.