Leavenworth ? A Missouri man accused of stabbing his 11-year-old developmentally disabled son and leaving him to die on the Kansas Turnpike is competent to stand trial, according to a report filed Friday in Leavenworth County District Court.

Gary Fuller, an attorney representing Raymond Boothe, 34, contested the findings and asked Judge Frederick Stewart to approve and pay for an independent psychiatric evaluation.

Fuller said he had received additional information from Boothe’s relatives that caused him to believe the evaluation conducted by Larned State Hospital was incomplete.

Stewart said he would rule on Fuller’s motion at a hearing Wednesday.

Boothe, who remained silent during the five-minute hearing, is charged with first-degree murder.

After the hearing, Boothe’s father, Eugene Boothe, recalled that in the early morning hours of July 4, 1987, his son called him from St. Louis because he was “seeing things and hearing things” and because he thought somebody was trying to kill him.

Eugene Boothe said his son was hospitalized for mental illness in 1987 and in 1992.

Eugene Boothe, who lives in Eagleville, Mo., said he and Raymond Boothe’s wife, Lisa Boothe, recently visited Raymond Boothe at Larned State Hospital and have spoken with him several times on the telephone since his arrest.

Debra Burns, a victim's rights coordinator with the Leavenworth County Attorney's Office, left, talks with Raymond Boothe's father, Eugene Boothe. On Friday the two discussed a report that says Raymond Boothe is competent to stand trial on charges of stabbing his 11-year-old developmentally disabled son and leaving him to die in August on the Kansas Turnpike.

“We feel like he doesn’t really comprehend what’s happened,” Eugene Boothe said, adding that Raymond Boothe remembers meeting with a psychiatrist or a psychologist only once while at Larned State Hospital.

Raymond Boothe was taken Sept. 7 to Larned State Hospital. Since Tuesday, he’s been in the Leavenworth County Jail.

According to police reports, Raymond Boothe, who lived with his wife and three of their four children in Cameron, Mo., drove to Creston, Iowa, on Aug. 27 to pick up the couple’s oldest son, Levi, 11, who was living there in a group home for developmentally disabled children.

Raymond Boothe and Levi then drove back to the Cameron area, picked up the couple’s three other children at the home of Raymond’s sister, and headed south.

At the time, Lisa Boothe had checked into an alcohol treatment program and was not home to stop her husband. Family members have said Raymond indicated he was going to Oklahoma.

Later that night, police said, Raymond Boothe allegedly stopped his car on the Kansas Turnpike in Leavenworth County near the Douglas County line, stabbed Levi several times with a pair of needle-nose pliers, and left the boy for dead on the highway.

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Levi Boothe was later found dead alongside the turnpike. An autopsy determined he’d died from multiple blunt trauma, possibly caused from being struck by vehicles. Numerous other wounds were found as well.

Hours later, Boothe crashed his car through a fence at 27th Street and Lawrence Avenue in an apparent suicide attempt. He and the three other children survived.

After his arrest, family members of Raymond Boothe said he told them he’d tried to kill Levi because the boy had mocked him and called him names.

Levi Boothe was severely disabled and unable to speak.

“He’s made statements about things that definitely aren’t so,” said Eugene Boothe. “Levi couldn’t talk.”