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Mental competency hearing set for Ventura County man accused of killing his brother.

The Newbury Park neighborhood where a 15-year-old boy was attacked and fatally injured Thursday night.
Lance Orozco
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KCLU
The Newbury Park neighborhood where a 15-year-old boy was attacked and fatally injured Thursday night.

Zuberi Sharp didn't enter a plea during his first court appearance Monday

A mental competency has been set for January for a Ventura County man accused of killing his brother with an ax.

Zuberi Sharp is facing murder and corporal injury charges stemming from last Thursday night’s attack at a Newbury Park home. The 15-year-boy died at a hospital minutes later.

Sharp was arrested a short time later. The 24-year-old man had gone to nearby Newbury Park High School. He was nude and on the football field when he was arrested. Sharp appeared on court Monday, but didn’t enter a plea pending the results of the competency hearing.

Sharp is the son of convicted murderer Calvin Sharp. In 2007, the elder Sharp stabbed to death a six year old boy, and seriously injured the boy’s mother and a friend when they tried to intervene.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.