Former CMU student charged with father's murder, deemed incompetent to stand trial
A 25-year-old Hazel Park man accused of killing his father will undergo a psychiatric examination before his next court date.
Justin Arbow was charged with the open murder of his 65-year-old father, Jim, on Aug. 28. Arbow is believed to have struck his father in the head with a metal chair before fleeing. His father's body was found in the basement of his Hazel Park home hours after Arbow's mother filed a missing persons report.
Arbow was taken into custody by Gratiot County Sheriff’s deputies the following morning in Ithaca — more than 120 miles away from the scene of the crime.
Arbow was arraigned in Hazel Park 43rd District Court on Aug. 31. Standing before the same court on Sept. 11 for a probable cause conference, Arbow was deemed incompetent to stand trial, and ordered by District Judge Charles Goedert to be examined by psychiatrists at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ypsilanti.
According to Arbow's Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, he was enrolled at Central Michigan University as recently as 2018, and he was involved with the Phi Sigma Phi fraternity in 2013.
