Stabbing suspect ordered to have mental-health evaluation

WEST PALM BEACH — A West Palm Beach man accused of stabbing a woman outside a Clematis Street restaurant last month has been ordered to undergo a mental-health evaluation.

The mental-health assessment was ordered April 13 when Judge Dina Keever-Agrama declared Chad Sanjay Bailey incompetent to proceed with his court hearings.

Bailey was turned over to the Florida Department of Children and Families to be placed in an unspecified mental-health treatment center.

A hearing to determine whether he is fit to stand trial has been scheduled for October.

Bailey faces an attempted first-degree murder charge after city police alleged that he stabbed a South Carolina woman on the night of March 9 outside the Sushi Yama restaurant on Clematis Street.

Amy Manucy told The Palm Beach Post days after the incident that she was sitting in the sidewalk area with her daughter and sister when the attack happened.

“We were just talking,” she said. “I don’t think we were sitting there long. Then all of a sudden, I felt some- thing hit me from behind.”

She was treated at a hospital and later released.

At the time of his arrest, Bailey reportedly told police investigators that he committed the act because he was tired of being picked on for being homeless.

Police allege that Bailey was involved in another Clematis Street incident days earlier. On Feb. 28, he allegedly grabbed a heavy glass candle off a sidewalk table outside Rocco’s Tacos and hurled it at the bar, shattering $921 worth of liquor bottles.

A charge of criminal mischief was downgraded to a misdemeanor from a felony. That case is also awaiting the outcome of the mental-health evaluation.