Shaquille Taylor is accused of shooting and killing Belmont University student Jillian Ludwig in 2023.
But we still don’t know whether he’ll actually have to face murder charges.
He’s still waiting for a judge to determine whether he’s competent to stand trial.
But Ludwig’s parents believe there’s no question he is, in fact, competent. And they feel this case has exposed flaws in the system.
“He (Shaquille Taylor) didn’t appear to be incompetent to us at all,” Jessica Ludwig told NewsChannel 5 Investigates after Taylor’s recent competency hearing.
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Metro Police say Taylor shot at a car in November of 2023, and one of the bullets struck 18-year-old Jillian Ludwig, a college freshman at Belmont, as she walked in a park near campus.
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“My opinion was that he did not have sufficient capacity to proceed with the charges against him or, in other words, I am concerned that he is not competent to proceed,” Dr. Mary Elizabeth Wood told the judge.
Wood cited an intellectual disability, diagnosed when Taylor was three. She came to a similar conclusion after she evaluated him in another criminal case back in 2021. And Wood said her findings are identical to those from another evaluation done in 2010.
But Jessica Ludwig responded, “Perhaps he has a low IQ, but we were just shocked by the amount of times that he has been deemed incompetent versus the competent man we saw on video.”
What stunned Ludwig and her husband were the videos prosecutors played in court to show the judge that Taylor is, in fact, competent.
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[Editor’s Note: Here are photos of the victim and accused perp.]
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