Dad competent for trial in baby's death

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) - A man accused of shaking his baby son to death in February is competent to stand trial.

On July 2 a judge ruled Glenn Ross Sr. competent to stand trial on charges of open murder for allegedly shaking his 13-day-old baby Glenn Ross Jr. to death.

In March, Ross was ordered to undergo a forensic exam to determine his competence to stand trial in the open murder case.

Ross, 22, and the baby's mother were staying with his parents on the north side of Kalamazoo in February, but everyone else was at appointments when the alleged shaking happened.

"I come home and my son said he made a mistake. That he... he threw the baby down on the couch," said the suspect's father, Roger Ross, in February.

In February, Ross's family told 24 Hour News 8 he suffers from mental and emotional problems -- bipolar disorder and ADHD -- and couldn't cope with caring for the baby alone.

"He has always been in special ed," Glenn Ross's aunt Eugenia Jensen said outside the courtroom. "The system has failed this kid so poorly. "I've taken him to the ER four or five times when he tried to kill himself and they sent him home."

Ross did not enter a plea during a status conference.