A jury found a man not guilty for the reason of insanity in the murder of a Fort Collins man back in 2021. He will now be held indefinitely in a state mental hospital by the Colorado Department of Human Services.

Victor Corwin was committed to the custody of the state on Tuesday in connection to a shooting that occurred on July 19, 2021. Corwin shot and killed 39-year-old Christopher Johnson outside of the McDonald’s in Midtown Fort Collins around 10:30 a.m.

Corwin was later found driving a stolen vehicle and was arrested by Larimer County Sheriff’s deputies and Fort Collins police. He was later identified as a suspect in a Lakewood burglary that led to the stolen vehicle.

Fort Collins Police Services, the District Attorney’s Office and other assisting agencies investigated the case for more than two years in an attempt to find a motive, according to a press release by the Eighth Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Investigators could find no correlation between Corwin and Johnson or Larimer County and concluded that Corwin committed the murder “spontaneously and at random due to paranoid delusions stemming from a diagnosis of unspecified schizophrenia.”

Doctors in forensic psychology and psychiatry evaluated Corwin, according to the release. All three determined he was insane during the shooting and “suffered from a mental disease or defect that left him incapable of knowing the wrongfulness of his actions,” the legal standard for insanity.

The District Attorney’s Office “pursued every legal recourse available,” according to the release, but Colorado law requires a defendant found to be insane be committed to the state mental hospital instead of the Department of Corrections.

“My heart breaks for the Johnson family,” District Attorney Gordon McLaughlin said at the sentencing hearing, “the randomness and senselessness of this case makes it incredibly difficult for them to find closure. While the right legal result was reached in this case, I share the family’s belief that the state hospital will need to maintain custody of Mr. Corwin for the remainder of his life to protect the community.”