After appearing in court twice last week, the man police say shot three tourists to death at a rental home earlier this year must undergo a third competency status hearing.
Ahmad Bojeh, 29, was arrested hours after the shooting of Robert Luis Kraft, 70 of Holland, Mich., and Douglas Joseph Kraft, 68, and James Puchan, 68, of Columbus, Ohio on Jan. 17 outside a home in the Indian Point subdivision off Poinciana Boulevard.
In the days that followed, Osceola County Sheriff Chris Blackmon called Bojeh “frequent flyer in the Sheriff ’s Office” and a “threat to the neighborhood all the time.” In May 2021, Bojeh was charged with attempted murder when police say he fired a gun at parked vehicles—at least one was occupied—in the West U.S. 192 Wawa parking lot in Kissimmee. After over a year of medical evaluations to determine if he was competent to go through a traditional jury trial, Bojeh instead was given a bench trial, decided by a judge and ordered to undergo outpatient mental health treatment, from which he was released in 2022 and returned to his family’s home on Indian Point Circle, next door to where police say the triple shooting took place.
Due to that history, Bojeh has been scheduled three times for a competency hearing, delayed each time. The last was Thursday, when it was scheduled, but sitting Judge Wayne Wooten was not available that day. Another hearing was held Friday, at which time Bojeh was scheduled for further evaluation by a doctor for his mental ability to stand trial. Another hearing, possibly the competency hearing, is expected later this summer after this newest evaluation.
Bojeh remains held in the Osceola County Jail without bond.
Now comes word that the spouse of Douglas Kraft filed a negligence lawsuit Monday against the Indian Point Homeowners Association and the property’s New York owner Marte Marcel, stating they knew Bojeh to be “a violent, dangerous person with prior access to firearms,” but was negligent in ensuring the safety of those in the rented properties on that street.
The suit said the HOA and property owner knew law enforcement had been called multiple times for issues at Bojeh’s home.
“The Defendant had a nondelegable duty to take such precautions as were reasonably necessary to protect its invitees from reasonably foreseeable criminal attacks,” the suit reads. “Reasonable care should have known that Bojeh had a violent criminal history and had shot and injured an innocent person without provocation … (the deceased) could not take the necessary and reasonable measures to provide for their own security while on the subject premises, particularly if not warned that a violent person neighbored their short-term rental property.”
