Describing his brief conversation with Ocampo , Longwith painted a different picture . `` He looked at me . He answered when I asked him questions . It was a flat affect and a distant look in his eyes . ... He looked frightened in there , starry-eyed , '' Longwith said . The attorney said he did not know whether his client had been medicated . He said he hoped to have doctors examine Ocampo as soon as possible . Ocampo faces four charges of first-degree murder . He was arrested Friday night after he allegedly stabbed a transient to death , Anaheim Police Sgt. Bob Dunn said . Rackauckas said Tuesday that prosecutors had not decided whether they would seek the death penalty in the case . Attached to the 1st Marine Logistics Group at Camp Pendleton , California , Ocampo was a corporal and a motor vehicle operator , serving in the Marines from July 2006 until July 2010 , and was deployed to Iraq for six months in 2008 , according to Marine service records . He received an Iraq campaign medal with one star , a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and a National
Santa Ana , California -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A judge has postponed an arraignment hearing scheduled for a former Marine accused of fatally stabbing four homeless men in Southern California . The hearing for Itzcoatl Ocampo , 23 , was postponed Wednesday until February 17 after Judge Donald F. Gaffney granted a defense motion asking for more time . Ocampo , 23 , remains jailed without bail . He is in a protective `` suicide blanket , '' defense attorney Randall Longwith said . Longwith told reporters he asked for the delay because he had not been given enough time to meet with his client . Authorities only allowed him to talk with Ocampo for 15 seconds Tuesday , he said . `` There was no basis for a plea at this point . I do n't have enough information to even make a plea , '' he said . Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told reporters Wednesday that Ocampo was a `` serious , vicious killer . '' `` He appears to be lucid , calm , intelligent , somebody who knows what he 's doing . And his acts are very intentional , '' Rackauckas said .