A US man from New York, charged with killing a car driver, said he had killed US President-elect Donald Trump in a car accident outside Wal-Mart.
The man, Justin Barkley, 38, from Ithaca, said he knew where the president was on Dec. 8 and had set his goal well.
He told the judge that he had waited outside the American store building, until the man who was believed to be the billionaire Trump came out and killed him.
In fact, the killing of William Schumacher, 52, who works as a driver of the parcels.
"I have deliberately killed Donald Trump and I am proud of that," Barclay told the judge, according to the court hearing on Monday, according to local newspaper Sawt Ithaca.
Clashes with the killer
The police had clashed with Barclay in a confrontation that lasted eight hours before his arrest following the assassination of Schumacher, and he also shot at other officers.
Barclay was charged with second-degree murder, as well as a police officer.
At the hearing on Monday, Barclay told Judge John Rowley, "I know the difference between accidentally killing a man as Trump and killing Trump himself," insisting that he had actually killed Trump and not someone else.
In a Daily News report, he said that when asked whether he had any idea that the person who killed him was not Trump, he replied: "I hope it has not happened."
Psychiatric examination First
the judge has asked the examination by psychiatrists, to determine whether Barkley fully aware of or that he is insane, and then continue to hear his testimony to appear again before the court.
This means that the sessions will continue until next February.
The judge confirmed that he was not comfortable with the indictment of the man before he took a report on his psychological condition adequately.
The assessment is supposed to be taken these days in prison or an outpatient psychiatric hospital.
Barclay will be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison.