UPDATE: Competency Hearing For Man Accused Of Gunning Down Attorney

A judge ruled Friday that a man accused of gunning down a prominent defense attorney in Somerset in June, can’t be given any psychiatric medications until it is determined whether he’s competent to stand trial.

Doctors from the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center (KCPC) wrote Pulaski Circuit Judge David Tapp saying they wanted to force-medicate Clinton Inabnitt.

In that letter, the doctors also said if they couldn’t get Inabnitt to take his medications, they wanted him to be moved to a jail.

The judge said the KCPC doctors were skipping steps in the process.

He ruled they had 21-days to determine Inabnitt’s competency to stand trial.

A competency hearing was scheduled for December 2, 2014 in Pulaski Circuit Court.

Inabnitt is accused of shooting attorney Mark Stanziano several times outside Stanziano’s Somerset office.

During an earlier preliminary hearing, a detective testified that Inabnitt told investigators that he had deciphered a newspaper message that instructed him to kill Stanziano.

Inabnitt reportedly told investigators that he believed if he killed Stanziano, the ringing in his ears would stop.

The detective testified that Inabnitt told investigators that he didn’t want to carry out the shooting and understood it was wrong, but that it was something he had to do.

For Stanziano’s widow, who practiced law with her late husband, Friday’s hearing was the latest in an unbearable process.

"It’s kind of like walking through hell.  It’s a difficult process because I’m on the other side of it," said Bethany Stanziano.