SALEM, Ore. -- A Damascus, Ore. man who says voices told him to kill a woman was denied a request Wednesday to be released from the Oregon State Hospital to a secured community home.

The state board recommended that Lee Joseph Vojta not be moved to a community setting with supervision.

A hearing Wednesday and a psychiatric safety review board heard listening to testimony from both sides.

His doctors supported his request, but Clackamas County prosecutors and the victim's family members adamantly opposed it.

In April of 2003, Vojta shot and killed 20-year-old Sarah Huang as she worked at a farm near his home.He also tried to shoot another worker.

During questioning Wednesday, Vojta said on the day he killed Huang, he was suffering from psychosis, hearing voices and having flashbacks to the Vietnam War.

While testifying, Huang's mother pleaded for the board to keep her daughter’s killer locked up.

“She was innocently walking along in what she thought was a safe environment in horse stables. She grew up riding horses all her life, she was in her element, in a safe environment and she got a second bullet in her neck,” the victim’s mother said.

At his trial, Vojta was found guilty except for insanity and was committed to the Oregon State Hospital. He was also placed under the supervision of the state's psychiatric review board for the rest of his life.

He served four-and-a-half years at the state hospital and has had several parole review hearings.

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If released, Vojta would have been placed in a secure community setting with locked doors and 24-hour staffing.

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