NORFOLK — A judge this week ordered a 22-year-old man committed to a state hospital psychiatric treatment after finding him not guilty by reason of insanity for the 2024 slayings of his father and grandmother.

Ronnie Nyamekye Campbell entered insanity pleas in March to four charges, including two counts of second-degree murder. Circuit Judge David W. Lannetti accepted the pleas after defense and prosecution experts agreed Campbell was legally insane when he killed his family members.

The judge also ordered that Campbell be placed in the custody of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services for further mental health evaluations.

In Virginia, a defendant can be considered legally insane if — at time of their crime and because of “mental disease or defect” — th

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