Remember when, not so long ago, I was talking about the guy who killed a speed camera operator while he sat in his operator van out in Phoenix?  Well, as it turns out, there’s an update in that trial.

The sixty nine year old man, Thomas Patrick Destories by name, was found competent to stand trial by two different psychologists.  His case goes to court July 12th.

It turns out, though, that the guy has a history of mental illness and was actually serving as a Jeep tour operator (which isn’t exactly a resounding plus for the Jeep tour industry, now is it?) before he drove up alongside that speed camera van and fired several shots into it, killing the occupant.

It’s hard to even say that this was a protest of some kind, especially given the fact that Destories had a long term history of mental illness from the word go.  But still…these things just continue to show how they make roads much less safe and seem to only serve the purpose of helping broke municipalities fill their coffers at drivers’ expense.