Timothy Hoeller Carroll threats case; declared not competent to stand trial

MILWAUKEE - He’s charged with making indirect threats of a school shooting, and now a Milwaukee man faces a possible mental health commitment, for the second time in 18 months.

63-year-old Timothy Hoeller is charged with making terrorist threats against Carroll University in Waukesha in 2018 and again in 2022.

The school fired him from a part-time teaching job in 2017.

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Last year, a judge temporarily committed him to a state mental hospital. Now, he could be headed there again, after a doctor declared him once again to be not competent to defend himself.

"lt appears that he has discontinued use of psychotropic medications since his last competency evaluation, leading to re-emergence of symptoms," judge Michael Bohren said in court on Monday, April 29.

Prosecutors requested the renewed competency evaluation after Hoeller sent the court a letter last month referring to bomb threats.

Hoeller disagreed with the doctor’s report, so the court set a contested competency hearing for Friday, May 3.

He remains free on bond until then.