The 28-year-old suburban North Palm Beach man who told police he was the devil after he stabbed his mother to death in an argument over a television show has been deemed mentally fit to stand trial.

The ruling for Alan Farajian comes nearly five years after he killed his mother, Gloria Farajian, a second grade teacher who had come to visit her mentally ill son at the family’s home in the 1800 Block of Len Drive when he cut her throat and stabbed her in the throat and chest with a steak knife.

Farajian, who by the time of the killing had a history of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial in April 2013. His case was set for trial later that year after he was deemed competent, but a subsequent evaluation closer to the trial date led a judge to again rule that he was mentally incompetent.

Farajian has been in and out of psychiatric facilities since then, but Circuit Judge Dina Keever-Agrama ruled him mentally fit for trial last week based on the results of his most recent evaluation.

According to court records, Farajian’s second degree murder case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Charles Burton’s felony division. A hearing has been set for Nov. 16.