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Badge and Bar: Updated mental evaluation ordered for murder case
Evaluation to be expedited ahead of Castillo's Aug. 24 trial date
Wanda Vance
Wanda Vance took home the Assistant District Attorney of the Year award at the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia Summer Conference.
A Gainesville man accused by authorities of fatally shooting another man at a soccer game in 2013 will have his mental competency for trial re-evaluated before his expected court date. Saul Merdez Castillo, 41, was indicted in 2013 and accused of shooting Silverio Acosta, 46, at a June 16 Tadmore Park soccer game in Hall County. Castillo faces charges of malice murder, felony murder, possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime and aggravated assault.