COEUR d'ALENE — The Coeur d'Alene man accused of shooting pastor Tim Remington last March will be sent to a state-run mental health facility prior to facing a criminal charge.

Kyle Odom, 30, is charged with aggravated battery and could spend as long as 30 years in prison if convicted of shooting Remington multiple times in the parking lot of his church, The Altar in Coeur d’Alene.

At a hearing Thursday in Kootenai County District Court, Judge Timothy Van Valin agreed with both the prosecution and public defender, saying Odom should be sent to a mental health hospital in southern Idaho for treatment before he can adequately assist in his own legal defense.

"He needs to be sent to a state hospital," said Kootenai County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jed Whitaker.

Whitaker said his office received the results of additional mental health evaluations conducted on Odom at the request of the public defender's office. Although the evaluations showed Odom is not mentally impaired, it found he is unable to adequately provide his attorneys with necessary information to ensure Odom is provided with effective legal defense.

The move by Judge Van Valin will put an indefinite hold on any future hearings in the case. Once the treatment Odom receives at the state-run facility gets him to a place where he is able to provide his attorneys with assistance, the matter will be reopened.

Following the shooting, Odom reportedly drove to Spokane before heading south to Boise. On March 7, he boarded a commercial flight from Boise to Washington, D.C., and was seen throwing flash drives and other items over the White House fence prior to being arrested by Secret Service agents.

Odom signed a waiver of extradition in Washington, D.C., on April 6, and was escorted to Kootenai County by the U.S. Marshals Service. He was booked into the Kootenai County jail on May 6 and is still being held at the facility on a $500,000 bond.

Although he was originally charged with attempted murder, prosecutors amended the charges against Odom to aggravated battery, which carries the same maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Prosecutors also attached a felony deadly weapons enhancement to the charge, which carries an additional 15-year sentence if Odom is convicted.