Competency exam ordered for man charged in downtown Detroit stabbing

The man charged in a daytime stabbing of a woman in downtown Detroit this September will undergo a competency evaluation before his case moves forward.

Devon Watson, 42, was ordered to undergo the examination at a Wednesday, Sept.

30, probable cause hearing in Wayne County’s 36th District Court in the death of Jaquoya Wix, 34. Officials say Wix was on a break Sept.

20 from her job at the Chipotle on Woodward Avenue when Watson attacked her with a knife in the alley behind the business.