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HALIFAX — The case of a mentally ill Nova Scotia man who claimed to be a vampire slayer when he killed two men in 2007 concluded today when a judge said he wasn’t criminally responsible for the crimes.

Judge Kevin Coady of Nova Scotia Supreme Court says Glen Race was too mentally ill with schizophrenia to understand that what he was doing was morally wrong.

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Over two weeks in 2007, with his mind gripped by florid psychosis, Race killed two gay men in Halifax in the belief they were demons. He fled to upstate New York, where he killed another man at a wilderness camp. Then he drove nearly all the way to Mexico, and was caught trying to cross the Rio Grande in Texas, biting the face of the border guard who stopped him.

Schizophrenic and off his medication, Race was acting on what he believed were supernatural orders, fighting demons and vampires, in the grandiose delusion he was some kind of avenging angel.