A Schuylkill County judge has ordered the Pine Grove man charged with killing his grandmother to undergo mental health treatment.

Common Pleas Judge Jacqueline Russell issued the order April 26. It says Kalvin Clark, 33, “shall be committed for involuntary inpatient treatment for a period not to exceed (60) days.”

The Schuylkill County MH/MR shall secure a bed and notify the court, the defendant, his public defender Lora McDonald and District Attorney Michael O’Pake when he is admitted.

Russell further ordered an evaluation and subsequent hearing scheduled for a later date to determine Clark’s competency to stand trial once he is discharged from treatment. O’Pake said Sunday he hasn’t received the paperwork saying Clark has been admitted. When asked if Clark was still in prison, an employee said “no comment.”

McDonald submitted a motion April 30 to amend the recent order, according to court records, but O’Pake said he hasn’t received it yet.

In an April 12 order, Russell ordered that Clark was not competent to stand trial. All proceedings are halted until another ruling is made on his competency to stand trial.

Clark was committed to prison on first- and third-degree murder charges, aggravated assault, strangulation, reckless endangering another person and simple assault. He also faces other charges in two other instances unrelated to the murder charges.

State Police filed the charges in February alleging Clark killed Sharon Zimmerman at their home. Her body was discovered at 89 N. Tulpehocken St. when someone called the Schuylkill County Communications Center saying she had fallen in the shower and had cuts.

Schuylkill EMS responded and found her dead. Police were then called.

Police said Zimmerman had “significant bruising and redness from the right side of her neck around to the left side,” scratches, a deep laceration on the right side of her mouth and a scratch on the left. All are consistent with being strangled, which is what a pathologist ruled the cause of death was.