>>RELATED: 911 call: Champaign 8th-grader claims other personality killed woman
His defense attorney had requested the competency evaluation.
Prosecutors have to sought to try Nicholas as an adult. The judge ordered Thursday a psychological evaluation of Nicholas and will schedule a hearing after that's done to decide if he should face charges as an adult or not.
Nicholas has been accused of stabbing and shooting Taylor, court records say. It’s believed the teen would have attempted to flee the scene if not for a leg injury, Champaign County Prosecutor Kevin Talebi has said.
>>DETAILS: 8th grade murder suspect's revealing 9-1-1 call
Nicholas allegedly stabbed himself in the leg during the struggle with Taylor, who was his dad's girlfriend and was described in a 9-1-1 call as the teen's stepmother.
In that emergency call, Nicholas blames the killing on an alternate personality named Jeff.
“This is going to be really hard to explain, but I kind of have another person inside me,” Nicholas can be heard saying in the call. “… I swear it wasn’t me. It was Jeff. Jeff is inside me.”
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