Woke Prosecutor Blames Soaring Medical Costs for Why Man Allegedly Murdered 3 Tourists Near Disney

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State Attorney Monique Worrell passionately made her case on Thursday, just days after Jihad Bojeh, 29, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder with a firearm for the January 17 deaths of three men.

Robert Luis Kraft, 69, his brother Douglas Joseph Kraft, 68, and their friend James Puchan, 68, were in town that weekend for the Mecum Car Show in Kissimmee, about 30 minutes from Orlando.

While the trio prepared to head back home from their rental, they were shot to death by Bojeh, the Osceola County Sheriff’s office said.

After Bojeh was arrested and charged with their deaths it was revealed that this was not his first run-in with the law.

He was charged with attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, aggravated battery, and two counts of criminal mischief after he opened fire at a Wawa gas station in 2021.

Bojeh was acquitted in 2022 of those charges by reason of insanity, meaning he committed the crime, but did not know what he did was wrong. He was approved to go to an outpatient mental health facility rather than a state treatment center.

Now, with him back in custody, Worrell said ‘failure’ in the legal system led to Bojeh’s most recent crime because he could not afford the costly price of mental health support he was meant to get.

‘My understanding is that that treatment was originally costing $7 a month and that after a period of time, that $7 a month bill went up to $150+ a month,’ Worrell said during a press conference last week.

‘That the individual was no longer in compliance with his treatment because of inability to pay for that treatment,’ she added.

Worrell, who represents the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, went on to add that stopping necessary mental health resources for Bojeh was a ‘failure’ in the system.

‘The criminal legal system is not adequately equipped to deal with mental illness, nor should it be. That is a role of community partners. That is a role of mental illness hospitals, but not the Department of Corrections or the state attorney’s office,’ she said.

‘However, studies have shown that our jails and our departments of corrections are the largest mental health providers in our communities. That’s a problem. It’s a problem because when things go wrong, people are looking for someone to blame.’

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From 2006 to 2022, the Oceola County Sheriff’s office received 41 calls for service to his parents address, which is where he also lived.

‘Of the 41 calls, 16 involved Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, the majority of when he was a minor,’ the agency said, per Fox 35.

The calls mainly detailed Bojeh’s father saying his son was being aggressive toward family members and that he refused to go to school, the sheriff’s office said.

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