WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland doctors are treating a Montgomery County man in hopes of making him mentally competent for a murder trial.

Claude A. Allen III, who was charged last May with killing a man with a hatchet outside his Gaithersburg home, was found not competent for trial two months ago. That means he’s not able to help his attorney or understand the proceedings against him.

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