Verify: Was a CT 'cannibal' released into the community?

Bridgeport, Conn. – A case that has received considerable attention in Connecticut in the past few days, especially in the past few days, concerns Tyree Smith from Bridgeport, who was accused of killed Angel Gonzalez with an ax in 2011.

According to the public prosecutor's office, Gonzalez 'brain and one of his eyeballs.

Smith was not found guilty of madness in 2013 and was hired to a state psychiatric hospital for up to 60 years.

It recently became publicly known that Smith has lived and treated in the community in the past nine months, which caused the concerns of the residents of Connecticut.

A viewer via e -mail asked: “Is it true that Connecticut published a cannibal in our streets?”

• Michael Lawlor, Associate Dean of the University of New Haven
• Robert McDonald, lecturer for criminal justice at the University of New Haven
• Listitional documents of the Psychiatric Security Checking Committee Connecticut

While Tyree Smith is now being treated in the community after spending years in a psychiatric hospital, he stays stricter and does not run freely through the streets.

In order to understand how this process works, FOX61 consulted with experts from the criminal justice at the University of New Haven.

Since Smith was not found guilty because of madness, he is responsible for the Psychiatric Security Review Board. Although the Court gave him a maximum time in which it could be committed, the board of directors can assess a patient at any time and vote on whether it is released.

“[The board] consists of a psychiatrist, a psychologist, two parishioners, a lawyer for victims and is led by a former state judge. “

“He is very supervised. He has to maintain his medication that is administered by the medical staff, and the court will have the ability, or the commission will have the ability if it does not follow any of these conditions in order to get it back to the detained state, or the hospital state in which he was previously,” said Robert McDonald, a criminal justice, a criminal judiciary, a criminal judiciary, a criminal judiciary, a criminal judiciary, a criminal judiciary, a criminal judiciary Criminal justice, the one on New Haven.

According to McDonald, this means that Smith is not going around alone, and the public will probably never see him outside.

“There will be some serious discussions at this time, there can be some complaints, there can be legal disputes,” said McDonald. “These are also not proven scientific decisions. There are a lot in these things, many statements of people in the facility from which he was. Various doctors, nurses and doctors who took care of him both on the medical side and on the psychiatric side, and hopefully this was the right information.”

At Smith's hearing, his Care team said that his schizophrenia is in full remission, he divides into group sessions and shows “persistent psychiatric stability”.

Due to the comprehensive coverage of the case, the board did not announce where Smith currently lives.

Kaye Paddyfote is a reporter at FOX61 News. It can be reached at kpaddyfote@fox61.com. Follow your X and Instagram.

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