By JORDAN OWEN and RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Ross Feiwell | Chicago Police
A homeless man who allegedly stabbed Thomas Sawyer man to death last year in Uptown has been found unfit to stand trial.
Ross Feiwell, 59, was charged with first-degree murder for the June 14, 2015, stabbing death of 49-year-old Thomas Sawyer, authorities said at the time.
Feiwell was setting up his makeshift “house” in a bus shelter in the 4400 block of North Broadway when Sawyer approached with a wooden pole, prosecutors said. Feiwell, armed with a metal chain, warned Sawyer to “steer clear” before the two men started fighting around the bus shelter.
After Feiwell was able to move the wooden stick away from Sawyer, he allegedly stabbed him in the neck. Feiwell then hit Sawyer with the stick while he was on the ground lying in a pool of blood, prosecutors said.
Feiwell wiped the blood from the knife and put the knife in his suitcase, prosecutors said. Police arrived and recovered all the weapons and a bloody rag, he said.
The incident was caught on surveillance cameras from a Target store in the 4400 block of North Broadway, according to prosecutors.
“I was protecting my house,” Feiwell allegedly told police. “He was going to piss in my house.”
At his bond hearing last year, Feiwell said the “Illuminati” are after him and wanted a Rabbi to help him. “I will be judged by a higher power,” Feiwell told the judge.
He also sokes of Anita Hill and Kathy Bates’ performances in the film “Misery”; and accused an assistant public defender of being the devil and a member of the Illuminati.
Feiwell was convicted of attempted murder in 1986 for hitting a house guest with a hatchet and trying to strangle him. He was also convicted of trying to escape from custody while awaiting trial on that case.
When prosecutors detailed how Feiwell attacked the victim and stole his Cadillac, Rolex watch and $200, Feiwell screamed out, “It was a homosexual sex game!”
Judge Thomas Hennelly found Feiwell unfit to stand trial at a hearing Thursday. He was remanded to the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services, according to Cook County court records.