Taheriazar: To Plead Guilty

Via Confederate Yankee comes word that the jeep jihadi, Mohammed Taheriazar, will plead guilty to charges stemming from driving his rented SUV into and through a crowd on the UNC Chapel Hill campus in March:

The man accused of driving a rented SUV onto the UNC campus in March and striking nine people told a judge he plans to plead guilty to the charges against him.

Mohammed Taheri-Azar entered the courtroom this morning to ask that he be allowed to represent himself. A judge had ordered the public defender's office to work with him while it was determined whether he was competent.

But after being told he would have to submit to a psychiatric evaluation in order to do that, the 23-year-old said he would rather keep his court-appointed lawyer.

Taheri-Azar told Superior Court Judge Carl Fox he had met a few times with the psychiatrist and psychologist and "they don't appear to be very good psychologists and psychiatrists in my opinion."

Taheri-Azar has said in letters and in a 911 call that he wanted to kill people to avenge Muslim deaths around the world when he drove a rented SUV through The Pit, the main gathering spot on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, March 3.

Nine people were hit; all survived.

Taheri-Azar is charged with nine counts of attempted murder and nine counts of felonious assault. He has been in Raleigh's Central Prison in lieu of $5.5 million bail.

The next court date is apparently in September.