GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – A woman accused in a grisly killing and dismemberment case in Wisconsin attacked her attorney Tuesday during a court hearing, moments after a judge agreed to delay her trial.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, was seated in a Brown County circuit court when her attorney, Quinn Jolly, asked the judge for an additional two weeks for a defense expert to review his client’s competency to stand trial.
Moments after Judge Thomas Walsh reluctantly agreed to postpone her March 6 trial, Schabusiness attacked Jolly.
Video taken by WLUK-TV, which can be seen in the video player above, shows a deputy wrestling her to the floor.
“You went off on your attorney, Taylor. You went crazy on your attorney,” deputies asked, according to WLUK.
The courtroom was then cleared before the hearing resumed.
Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022. Authorities say she strangled Thyrion at a home in Green Bay, sexually abused him and dismembered his body, leaving parts of him throughout the house and in a vehicle.
His head was reportedly found inside a bucket in the basement.
Schabusiness has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
According to the criminal complaint, Schabusiness said they were using meth and other drugs, and were involved sexually when she became paranoid, WLUK reported.
The station reported that hours before the killing, she had removed an electronic monitoring bracelet. Authorities issued a warrant for her arrest for removing the monitor, but she wasn’t found before Thyrion’s death.
She is being held on a $2 million cash bond.
Following her courtroom outburst, the judge moved her competency hearing from Tuesday to March 6. The judge also proposed a May 15 trial date.
At the end of the hearing, Jolly told the court he would file a motion to withdraw from the case as Schabusiness’ attorney but the judge did not immediately rule on that matter.
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