COEUR d'ALENE - First District Judge Benjamin Simpson has ordered an examination and report on the mental capacity of the man accused of the hammer attack of a Bayview family in their mobile home in December.

Larry W. Cragun, 31, who lived in a mobile home next door, is accused of seven felony crimes related to the attack, including one count of first-degree murder after a woman died.

Simpson ordered the director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to designate at least one qualified psychiatrist or licensed psychologist to examine Cragun and report back on his ability to assist his attorneys with his defense and to understand the proceedings against him.

The cost will be paid by Health and Welfare, according to court documents signed by the judge Wednesday.

The report back to the court will give a description of the nature of the examination; a diagnosis or evaluation of any medical condition; and an opinion on Cragun's capacity.

Prosecutors have subpoenaed Health and Welfare for all mental health records related to Cragun. A hearing is scheduled for March 18 on a motion by the defense to void the subpoena.

Cragun was indicted by a grand jury in January, and he has pleaded not guilty.

Cragun is accused of walking into his neighbors' mobile home overlooking Lake Pend Oreille and attacking the four people inside who were watching TV on Dec. 19. He also allegedly had a knife with the large hammer.

He is accused of hitting Patricia Heath, 43, in the head with the hammer. She died Dec. 20 at Kootenai Medical Center from massive head trauma.

Patricia Heath's husband, Michael Heath, suffered minor injuries.

Michael Heath's mother, Lorraine Wallis, and son, Jedidiah Heath, were both sent to the hospital following the attack. Both were later released, though Wallis suffered serious head injuries.

The attack occurred on the 34500 block of North Limekiln Road.

Bayview residents familiar with Cragun said he had been acting irrationally before the attacks, and had become known as "Crazy Larry" around the community.

Cragun was spotted around the community just before the attacks handing out flyers, headlined "Resist Socialism," at Ralph's Coffee House and other locations.

"Surveillance in the form of a brain-wave generator capable of the invasion of our minds has been unleashed into the public, myself an unwilling test subject," Cragun apparently wrote in a flyer.

He continued: "Our local (Navy) base has built this device in the form of an umbrella 1,400 feet submerged beneath our lake's surface to pick up impossible frequencies to detect in the form of submarines. I inform you that our own brain frequencies are no longer sacred and run at millibeats per second. Combined with GPS tracking satellites, our minds can and are being opened up like so much wrapping paper."

One resident told The Press at the time of the attacks that Cragun had an antenna attached to his vehicle, which he apparently claimed was used to communicate with submarines in the lake.

Cragun has previous convictions for drug possession, domestic violence assault, attempting to elude police, drunken driving and battery, according to court records.