Oregon board considering conditional release of man who decapitated mother
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The former Colton resident who was sentenced to Oregon State Hospital after decapitating his mother and bringing her severed head into an Estacada grocery store in 2017 could be released to another facility.
As first reported by The Oregonian/OregonLive, OSH representatives met with the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board for a hearing on the potential release of 43-year-old Joshua Webb on Wednesday.
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Per Oregon law, the state hospital must request a hearing if its clinical team has determined someone under their watch “can be controlled with proper care, medication, supervision and treatment if conditionally released.” This is based on an internal review process, and the new facility being considered for the conditional release must also accept the patient.
A 24-hour locked residential treatment center in Umatilla County was proposed as Webb’s next facility. The Board now has 30 days from the hearing to issue an order.
Webb has been held in the state hospital since 2018, over a year after he beheaded his 59-year-old mother, Tina Webb, on Mother’s Day and carried her head into the Harvest Market Thriftway that Sunday afternoon.
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Witnesses said they saw him covered in blood and holding a knife, before stabbing a longtime cashier. The clerk survived the incident.
Other store employees held Webb until authorities arrived on the scene.
At Webb’s first court appearance, a Clackamas County judge ordered for him to be held without bail. He was charged with murder, attempted murder and first-degree abuse of a corpse.
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He was also accused of first-degree animal abuse, in connection to the dead dog that was found inside the same residence where his sister found their mother’s body.
In late June 2018, Clackamas County Judge Robert Herndon ruled that Webb qualified for a guilty plea by reason of insanity after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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