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Man found guilty but insane in market murder By Nick Morgan of the Mail Tribune Jan 23, 2020 02:14 PM A A A judge has found a man guilty except for insanity on a murder charge in the unprovoked homicide outside a Central Point area convenience store. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Lorenzo Mejia found Robert Kahlil Davies-Calhoun, 33, guilty of murder except for insanity Thursday morning in the 2015 killing of Douglas Mitchell Spaur outside the Stop-N-Go Market on Table Rock Road, according to Jackson County Circuit Court records. The finding closes two and a half days of trial in front of Mejia that drew from the testimony of 14 witnesses — including four mental health professionals — and voluminous pages of psychological records placed on the court record. Davies-Calhoun waived his right to a jury trial. On the morning of Nov. 2, 2015, Davies-Calhoun was under the wholly false delusion that he needed to defend himself from Spaur, according to testimony from detectives and mental health professionals during the trial. “I don’t take pride in shooting someone, but it was my life or his,” Davies-Calhoun reportedly said in one police interview played during the trial. By all accounts, Spaur hardly knew Davies-Calhoun and never provoked him. Some psychiatrists came to the conclusion that Davies-Calhoun had a personality disorder while others diagnosed him with schizophrenia or a delusional disorder, according to earlier news reports. Davies-Calhoun’s defense lawyer, Elizabeth Baker of Eugene, used more than 14,000 pages of psychological reports and testimony from psychiatrists and psychologists to point to psychosis as the reason for Davies-Calhoun’s disconnect from reality. Davies-Calhoun will be sentenced Tuesday, where he faces 25 years to life in the custody of the Oregon Psychiatric Review Board, and will be committed to the state mental hospital. Reach reporter Nick Morgan at 541-776-4471 or [email protected] . Follow him on Twitter @MTCrimeBeat . File Photo Robert Kahlil Davies-Calhoun sits in court during his murder trial on Jan. 14.