NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A New York psychiatrist described being hacked with a cleaver by the man who killed his colleague, court documents show.
Prosecutors have released the grand jury testimony of Kent Shinbach on the Feb. 12, 2008, attack by David Tarloff, The New York Post reported Monday.
Tarloff goes on trial Tuesday for killing Kathryn Faughey in the Upper East Side office she shared with Shinbach.
Shinbach testified Tarloff screamed repeatedly, "I'm going to kill you!"
Tarloff's lawyer, Bryan Konoski, contends the paranoid schizophrenic believed he was on a divine mission to rescue his mother from a nursing home when he killed Faughey and slashed Shinbach in a failed robbery.
But medical assessments filed by prosecutors say Tarloff still was aware his actions were wrong.
Tarloff walked into the office wheeling a suitcase holding extra clothing and adult diapers for his mother, Beatrice. He admitted he still called her "Mommy" at 42 and shared a bed with her until she was moved into the nursing home.
Tarloff's admitted intention was to rob Shinbach, who was responsible for his first forced psychiatric commitment nearly two decades earlier.
