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Defense attorneys say a man accused of brutally stabbing a man to death in Alexandria last July did so because he thought the victim was a werewolf.
On July 13, 2018, police were called to an Old Town window replacement business in the 1200 block of King Street after receiving reports for a suspicious death.

Once officers arrived at the scene, they found Pankaj Bhasin locked inside a Mercedes Benz with no pants on covered in blood.

Inside the business, officers found the owner, Brad Jackson, 65, suffering from 53 stab wounds, among other injuries.

On Tuesday in court, the defense pleaded to strike the murder trial from the court stating a more appropriate charge of voluntary manslaughter should be applied.
The defense claimed Bhasin suffered from mental health issues and that he thought Jackson was a werewolf at the time of the incident.

The judge, however, overruled the motion to strike down the case.

 
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A jury has deadlocked and a mistrial has been declared in a northern Virginia murder case in which the defendant said he thought his victim was a werewolf.

WRC-TV in Washington reports that the judge dismissed the jurors Wednesday after three days of deliberations in Alexandria Circuit Court in the trial of 34-year-old Pankaj Bhasin.

He was charged with murder in the July 13 death of 65-year-old Bradford Jackson, who managed a window store in Old Town Alexandria. His neck was broken and he was stabbed more than 50 times with a box cutter.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed Bhasin was mentally ill, but prosecutors disputed that Bhasin was legally insane.

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A New Jersey man who thought he was killing a werewolf when he attacked an Alexandria store manager is set to be released from a mental institution soon, a report says.

Pankaj Bhasin, 37, killed Bradford Jackson, a stranger to him, in 2018. A year later, a Virginia court determined that Bhasin was legally insane at the time of the killing, the Washington Post reported at the time.
Doctors at the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute now say he's well enough to leave the facility after two years of treatment, and a judge has agreed to allow him a conditional release, NBC4 reports.

Bhasin — who has ties to Blackwood and East Brunswick, NJ, according to online records — will be required to take medication and undergo alcohol and drug testing as conditions of his release as well as have his location tracked and monitored. A review hearing will re-evaluate his case in December.
He will be allowed to live with his parents in Alexandria or Fairfax counties or move into an apartment with ties to a mental health agency as long as one of his parents lives nearby, the news station said.

But allowing Bhasin to return to the community that he once terrorized is something that friends of the man he killed say is unthinkable.
“Anyone that’s capable of doing that is capable of doing that again,” Jackson's friend Sarah Bryen told NBC4.
He told police and a psychiatrist later that Jackson had started turning into a werewolf and that he needed to kill the man to “save 99 percent of the moon and planets," the Washington Post said.

Five doctors diagnosed Bhasin with bipolar disorder with psychotic features in the lead up to his first trial. That ended in a mistrial when the jury couldn't return a verdict, reports said. During his second trial, Bhasin pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
A psychiatrist hired by the state agreed with the defense's doctors: Bhasin was clinically insane when he killed Jackson. A judge committed him to Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute for treatment.
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We all know he'll be fine until he stops taking his meds and starts back on the illegal substances. I'm afraid it will take another victim to have him locked up indefinitely.
 
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