ALLEGAN (WKZO) — Jonathan Colby, a 22-year-old Allegan County father will be tried for murdering his infant son.
He waived his preliminary hearing on open and felony murder charges.
A psychiatric exam has found him competent to stand trial. He reportedly told police that he was tired and frustrated when he lashed out at his three-month-old son Jase at the Starlite Drive mobile home park last December.
Pathologists say he struck and strangled his three month old son to death.
Waiving the preliminary hearing is designed to keep the story out of the news and gives him a better chance of attracting a jury that is unaware of the case. It doesn’t always work.
