A King County court found the man accused of killing a University of Washington student in May still incompetent to stand trial Monday afternoon.

Christopher Leahy, a 31-year-old man from Bellevue, is charged with killing 19-year-old Juniper Blessing, a transgender woman, on May 10 in a laundry room in an off-campus apartment complex. Leahy allegedly stabbed Blessing more than 40 times.

Leahy did not appear in court Monday. The presiding judge ordered a second period of competency restoration and a reassessment Dec. 22.

In June, a court-ordered evaluation found that Leahy was diagnosed with schizophrenia and psychosis and had been receiving care on and off since 2011, including outpatient services and medication. He had auditory hallucinations and believed he was working for the CIA at times.

He said he suffered a head injury in a car crash — though the most recent incident of which, when he totaled his father's BMW by driving into a concrete barrier in Bellevue at 130 miles per hour, did not indicate any head trauma — and experienced seizures.

Throughout the document, direct quotes from Leahy demonstrate the suspect's challenges with tangential thought and recollection of information, evaluator Dr. Jessica Hart wrote. His statements are mostly sentence fragments interspersed with long pauses and confused remarks.

A hospital intake report from 2017 described a similar communication style: medical personnel wrote that Leahy was "very formal, almost robotic, w[ith] a blunted, almost flat affect and monotone voice. He is very difficult to get consistent information from, either unable to elaborate on symptoms, confusing details repeatedly, or forgetting completely what we were talking about."

At the time, Hart wrote that she was "unable to form an opinion regarding Mr. Leahy's current capacity to understand the nature of the proceedings against him; however, it is my opinion that due to his psychotic symptoms, he currently lacks sufficient capacity to assist counsel in his defense."

She added that there was reasonable probability that Leahy would be able to regain competency with treatment.

Blessing's 20th birthday would have been last week, her family said in a statement.

"Our focus remains on Juniper, whose 20th birthday was last week, whose ashes we spread earlier this month, and whose love is everlasting. Everywhere we go, we see the kindness of Juni’s spirit and revel in its legacy," the Blessing family wrote. "Given Juniper’s beautiful spirit, talent, and intelligence, we cannot help but wonder what more she might have accomplished, and what the world would have gained, had she been able to live the full life she deserved."