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Pacifica resident Malik Dosouqi, 26, who has been charged with two murders and five felony counts after he was arrested for a pair of killings on Skyline Boulevard in Woodside in June, was ordered committed to Napa State Hospital for psychiatric treatment in San Mateo Superior Court on Dec. 6.
Dosouqi allegedly lured taxi driver Abdulmalek Nasher and tow truck driver John Pekipaki to the remote location in the area of Reids Roost Road near Wunderlich County Park on successive evenings, June 17 and 18, and stabbed them to death.
“The sheriff (deputies) will transport him up there as soon as they have open bed space,” said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Dosouqi will be enrolled in a “competency restoration program” in which he will receive medication. When and if doctors at Napa believe he is competent to stand trial, he will be returned to San Mateo County, Wagstaffe said.
“The case will proceed as if had never been interrupted,” he said.
According to the DA’s office, Dosouqi was “laughing inexplicably” during court proceedings and said he would be getting out of custody soon.
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles said in a July 17 hearing that he was concerned that Dosouqi would be unable to understand the criminal proceedings or contribute to his defense, and ordered a psychiatric evaluation.
After the evaluation was ordered, Dosouqi dropped a request to fire a private attorney and represent himself.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Rick Radin writes for The Almanac, the sister publication of the Mountain View Voice.
Rick Radin writes for The Almanac, the sister publication of the Mountain View Voice.
Rick Radin writes for The Almanac, the sister publication of the Mountain View Voice.
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