{"id":431313,"date":"2026-09-10T03:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/431313\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T03:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:54:13","slug":"son-indicted-in-his-mothers-fort-worth-death-is-competent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/431313\/","title":{"rendered":"Son indicted in his mother\u2019s Fort Worth death is competent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789012451_176_breakingphoto.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters<\/p>\n<p>                Pexels<\/p>\n<p>Nine months after an incompetence finding for a man who Tarrant County prosecutors allege beat his mother to death, his ability to reasonably consult with his attorney has been restored, a psychologist concluded.<\/p>\n<p>After treatment and education at a state hospital and a competence finding in a new assessment, Alexander Valdez was returned late last month to a jail in Tarrant County. He is under indictment on murder in the April 2025 death of Teresita Sayson, 58, whom Valdez beat, likely with a wooden jewelry box, authorities allege.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article304681356.html\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an exorcism<\/a>,\u201d Valdez told police officers as he walked out of the killing scene, a far west Fort Worth house, and sat on a chair on the front porch, according to a detective\u2019s account in an affidavit supporting Valdez\u2019s arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>A psychologist in October 2025 determined that Valdez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article312964553.html\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was incompetent then<\/a>. Competency restoration attempts usually involve medication and counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez had a Bible in his hand when officers arrived at the house. Blood appeared to be on his face, neck, chest, torso, hands and feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was doing witchcraft to kill my mom,\u201d Valdez explained to the officers, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>An officer asked if anyone else was at the house in the 9900 block of Farmers Branch Street, west of Loop 820.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a dead body in there. It\u2019s my mom,\u201d Valdez said.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege that Valdez, who is 24, killed Sayson by hitting her multiple times in the face and upper body with an object that they suggest in the affidavit is a wooden jewelry box. Inside the master bedroom where Sayson\u2019s body was found, police said they also located a broken jewelry box in which hair was wedged.<\/p>\n<p>Blunt force head injuries caused Sayson\u2019s death, a pathologist who works at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published September 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789012453_308_EmersonClarridge_Profile.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Emerson Clarridge\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Clarridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters Pexels Nine months after an incompetence finding for a man who Tarrant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-431313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}