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Amber Torrez is charged with the killings of two men.

Woman To Stand Trial In Brutal Stabbings

Judge Rules Torrez Competent To Stand Trial

POSTED: 12:32 pm MDT October 3, 2005

A woman accused in the brutal killings of two Denver men will stand trial on first-degree murder charges.

Amber Torrez, 20, was ruled competent to stand trial Monday by a Denver District Court judge.

She is accused in the fatal stabbings of John Hand, the founder of the alternative Colorado Free University and Masfin Gezahgn, a cab driver from Ethiopia.

Hand was killed March 28, 2004 in his Hilltop home and Gezahgn was killed the next day in front of his apartment near East 18th Avenue and Gilpin Street. Hand was stabbed 30 times and Gezahgn was stabbed 39 times.

Doctors had disagreed on her mental health during a previous hearing in July.

She told one doctor who examined her that she was a government-paid assassin and that she planned to hire 700 killers to form an army of assassins. That doctor said she was delusional. A second doctor said she is competent to stand trial.

Amber's next court appearance is a preliminary hearing set for Oct. 24.


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