Five months after his arraignment, Shane Foster, 21, is still unable to aid in his defense of obstruction of justice in a case involving the murder of 43-year-old Cynthia Lynch by alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan last November.

Foster had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity at his arraignment at the end of February.

District Attorney Walter Reed spokesman Rick Wood said he has received a 60-day extension to receive further counseling and education of the judicial process. His case will be reviewed again at that time. Foster had initially been interviewed and answered a questionnaire by the court that found him to be incompetent to stand trial. Wood said that obstruction of justice charges could mean a tampering of evidence in some way.

Foster’s father is Raymond “Chuck” Foster, 44, the purported Grand Imperial Wizard of the KKK in Bogalusa. He has been indicted on charges of second-degree murder in the same case and is awaiting trial.

Lynch had traveled to the area by bus from Tulsa, Okla. to join the KKK chapter allegedly lead by the elder Foster.

Lynch was undergoing an initiation ceremony at a remote campsite, 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.

Frank Stafford pleaded guilty April 30 to an obstruction of justice charge in the same case and is currently serving four years in prison.

Other suspects in the case awaiting trial on one charge each of obstruction of justice include Bogalusa residents Timothy M. Watkins, 31, Alicia Watkins, 23, Andrew Yates, 20, Random Hines, 27 and Danielle Jones, 23.