Ohio man Kevin Giome charged with Covington murder faces indefinite stay at Kentucky psych facility
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:09 pm
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COVINGTON, KENTUCKY - More than two years after Norman Kinkead was fatally stabbed on Covington’s riverfront, his sister sat in a courtroom, with a plaque bearing Kinkead’s photograph, just a 10-minute walk from where the attack happened.
She drove roughly three hours to be at a dayslong hearing for the man accused of killing Kinkead and brought along her brother’s remains in a silver-colored, metallic urn.
Kevin Giome, 36, is charged in Kenton County Circuit Court with murder, evidence tampering and resisting arrest in connection with the August 2023 stabbing of 47-year-old Kinkead, court records show.
Giome appeared in Judge Patricia Summe’s courtroom for a two-day evidentiary hearing, beginning Sept. 3, as part of a legal process to decide if Giome should be indefinitely and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility due to serious mental illness.
It is a rare proceeding created by a relatively new state law that sought to close a "perceived loophole" in the statutes governing involuntary commitment, according to a 2022 Kentucky Supreme Court opinion.
The judge found that Giome is incompetent to stand trial and he is unlikely to regain competency. While not a criminal trial, the proceeding followed the structure of a trial and Summe must decide whether there’s sufficient evidence of Giome’s guilt.
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