District Judge Reggie Badeaux has ruled that Shane Foster, the son of alleged KKK Imperial Wizard Raymond “Chuck” Foster, is now competent to stand trial.

Shane Foster has been charged with obstruction of justice in a case involving the murder of Oklahoma woman Cynthia Lynch, whom detectives believe Raymond Foster shot at a campsite in Sun after she tried to back out of a KKK initiation exercise.

The younger Foster appeared before Badeaux Tuesday for his third competency hearing. At the first two he was ruled incompetent and ordered to rehabilitation and counseling to educate him on basic laws and the judicial process. Both of which, Rick Wood, spokesman for District Attorney Walter Reed, said, he knew little about. “He was having a really hard time grasping how the justice process works and the judge wanted to make sure he understood the process before going on with the trial,” Wood said.

Dr. Michelle Garriga with Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System’s forensic division, reported Tuesday that she had examined Shane Foster, and it has been determined that he is now at a point that he understands the law well enough to stand trial.

His father has been charged with second-degree murder and is set to go to trial on Dec. 17.

Lynch reportedly traveled to the area by bus from Tulsa, Okla. last November to join the Sons of Dixie Brotherhood chapter of the KKK, which is allegedly led by the elder Foster.

Authorities believe she was undergoing an initiation ceremony at a remote campsite when she backed out at the last minute and was shot.

The case was discovered when Frank Stafford and Shane Foster entered a convenience store near Bogalusa and asked the clerk how they could get rid of bloodstains from clothes. The clerk informed the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office. The campsite where the crime was allegedly committed is in northern St. Tammany Parish so the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office took charge of the investigation.

Stafford pleaded guilty in April to an obstruction of justice charge in the same case and is currently serving four years in prison.

Danielle Jones pleaded guilty in June to accessory after the fact. She was sentenced to one year in jail.

The grand jury failed to return with an indictment against four other individuals who were also arrested in the case.