A Bonita woman who is accused of displaying a gun to her church congregation on Easter has been found mentally competent to stand trial.
The attorney for Anna Linda Conkey, 31, had questioned whether his client was mentally able to understand court proceedings, but San Diego Superior Court Judge Jay Bloom ruled Aug. 5 she was mentally fit to undergo further court proceedings.
“She was found competent,” said Deputy District Attorney Matthew Greco on Monday.
A preliminary hearing was set for this Friday, Aug. 16, but Greco said it was likely it would be delayed.
Court psychiatric records are not public records. Bloom read reports by a psychologist who interviewed Conkey at the Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility before ruling on her competency.
She is charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of making criminal thefts and one attempted threat, bringing a gun into a school zone, making a false bomb threat, child endangerment, resisting arrest, and disturbing a religious meeting.
The incident occurred April 21 at the Church TsidKenu at 4240 Mount Everest Boulevard in Clairemont. The church’s website describes the name of TsidKenu as “one of seven covenant names for God in the Old Testament.”
The pastor was concluding his Easter message when Conkey stood up holding her 1-year-old baby, and pointed a gun at several people. She allegedly told them they were all going to die. She then pointed the gun at her baby.
Church members overpowered her and wrestled the gun away. The gun turned out to be unloaded. Another person grabbed the baby and gave the child to a police officer.
It turns out that Conkey called 911 before pulling a gun on the congregation and told a dispatcher she had planted bombs in the church. No explosives were found, but the church had to be searched by officers.
Conkey had attended the church for some time, but she made an online video saying she had been asked to leave because they disagreed with her opinions. She described herself as a prophet.
Her husband, who was in the military, flew back to Bonita to take care of the baby and the couple’s other child which was in a daycare facility at the time. She has pleaded not guilty.
