{"id":769196,"date":"2026-07-17T23:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769196\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:28:19","slug":"hearing-rescheduled-for-hunter-vanderwall-after-previous-mental-health-evaluation-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769196\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing rescheduled for Hunter Vanderwall after previous mental health evaluation surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN\/WGTU) — One of the suspects in the murder of a Traverse City parking services employee was back in court Friday.<\/p>\n

Hunter Vanderwall, 19, is charged in the shooting death of Lawrence Boyd<\/a> in November 2025.<\/p>\n

A hearing was held in 86th District Court to determine if Vanderwall is competent to stand trial. <\/p>\n

\"Hunter<\/p>\n

Hunter Vanderwall, 19, is charged in connection of the shooting death of Lawrence Boyd in November 2025. (UpNorthLive)<\/p>\n

Dr. Daniel Sorkin, who did Vanderwall’s mental health exam, testified that Vanderwall was competent to stand trial. <\/p>\n

But during cross examination, defense attorney Jesse Williams brought up a 2024 clinical and neuropsychological evaluation done on Vanderwall, that Dr. Sorkin said he wasn’t aware of.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sorkin said there is a possibly this new information could change his opinion on competency. <\/p>\n

The judge ordered Williams to send the 2024 evaluation to Dr. Sorkin and scheduled a new competency hearing for August 7.<\/p>\n

Vanderwall is charged with: <\/p>\n

Homicide – Felony MurderPolice Officer – Assaulting\/Resisting\/Obstructing Breaking & Entering – Vehicle to steal property <\/p>\n

Eugene Thompson, 17, is also charged in the murder of Boyd. <\/p>\n

Thompson’s case was bound over to 13th Circuit Court March 2026.<\/p>\n

Thompson is charged with:<\/p>\n

Homicide – Murder – 1st Degree – Premeditated Homicide – Attempted MurderWeapons – Firearms Weapons – Carrying ConcealedPolice Officer – Assault\/Resist\/Obstructing Weapons – Felony Firearm Breaking & Entering – Vehicle to steal property <\/p>\n

Thompson has a final conference hearing August 28 and a trial date set for January 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN\/WGTU) — One of the suspects in the murder of a Traverse City parking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-769196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}