DENVER — The 25-year-old man accused of fatally shooting two people in a University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus dorm room in February will undergo a competency evaluation, an El Paso County district court judge ordered Monday.

Nicholas Trevon Jordan is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Feb. 16 deaths of his roommate, 24-year-old Samuel Knopp, and 26-year-old Celie Rain Montgomery of Pueblo.

Police responded to the UCCS campus just before 6 a.m. on Feb. 16 when Jordan and Knopp’s other roommate called 911 after being awoken by gunshots, according to an arrest affidavit.

Police found the bodies of Knopp and Montgomery, who was not a student at the university, with multiple gunshot wounds in Knopp’s room and Jordan’s room was emptied of his belongings.

Jordan had previously threatened to kill Knopp over a dispute about trash in the dorm pod. He filed a request to withdraw from UCCS classes and housing the day before the shooting, according to an arrest affidavit.

Jordan was arrested on Feb. 19 in Colorado Springs with all of his belongings packed in his car.

Jordan’s attorney filed a motion for a competency evaluation on Friday and Judge David Shakes ordered the evaluation during a hearing Monday, according to online court records and the El Paso County District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors did not argue against the evaluation, said spokesperson Kate Singh.

Shakes also ordered a mental health stay in the case. Jordan is set to appear for a review hearing on April 12, according to court records.

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