A psychologist will assess a man’s mental competence accused of killing his roommate and the injury of a caregiver at a Thousand Oaks memory care facility earlier this month.

The criminal homicide case against Thomas Buckley, 58, was stayed pending the results of the evaluation. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Maureen Houska ordered the evaluation after Buckley’s attorney, an appointed public defender, questioned the defendant’s mental competency during a Nov. 6 hearing, court records show.

The case stems from a Nov. 1 incident at Silverado Memory Care on Warwick Avenue in Thousand Oaks. Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters responded around 4:40 a.m. in reference to an agitated resident who broke a window and wouldn’t let personnel approach him.

After deputies took Buckley into custody, personnel at the scene found his roommate, Michael Patterson, 72, with “serious” injuries, authorities previously reported. Patterson was pronounced dead at the scene.