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Woman who killed two people in Midtown Atlanta shooting is not fit to stand trial – WSB-TV Channel 2

ATLANTA – The woman who police say went on a rampage in Midtown Atlanta in August 2022, killing two men, is not competent to stand trial, according to new court documents.

According to documents filed and received on Friday Channel 2 Action NewsA psychologist appointed by the court determined that Raissa Kengne was not fit to stand trial.

The prosecution decided not to challenge the psychologist’s opinion and a Fulton County Superior Court judge officially declared the defendant incompetent to stand trial.

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According to police, Kengne, 34, shot three people at the 1280 West condominiums and an office building at 110 Peachtree Street. Two of the victims, Michael Shinners and Wesley Freeman, died from their injuries. The other victim, Michael Horne, was eventually released from the hospital.

After the shootings, Kengne called a taxi from Atlanta Checker Cab picks them up from a hotel and takes them to a house on Robin Hood Road NE in Ansley Park. The driver said she told him it was her lawyer’s house. He said no one came to the door and Kengne returned to his taxi.

From there, according to the driver, Kengne asked for a ride to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Kengne was arrested by ATF task force officers at the international terminal.

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Channel 2 Action News tracked down her social media pages, including her LinkedIn profile. In her profile, she said she worked at an accounting firm, BDO, until November 2021, and she also mentioned the location of one of the shootings at 1100 Peachtree Street, where one victim, Freeman, was killed.

In her LinkedIn post, Kengne called Freeman the “laziest manager I’ve had the misfortune of working for.”

Freeman is also one of nearly a dozen people named in a roughly 600-page federal lawsuit filed by Kengne in 2022.

In the lawsuit, Kengne alleged that she was subjected to “retaliation, stalking, harassment, intimidation, threats, burglary and computer hacking” after she identified a “significant deficiency” in an audit that was not addressed.

It is unclear what the next steps will be in the Kengne case.

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