The suspect accused of repeatedly stabbing a biotech executive near University City’s Westfield UTC in 2014 has been returned from a state mental hospital, and a March 21 preliminary hearing was set on Feb. 9. Doctors at Patton State Hospital recommended that Odie James Miller Jr., now 22, be returned to San Diego now that he has regained his mental competency to face charges. San Diego Superior Court Judge Joseph Brannigan read doctors’ reports and ruled on Dec. 28, 2015 that Miller had regained his mental competency. Brannigan is the judge who committed Miller to Patton in 2014. Miller appeared before Judge Polly Shamoon on Feb. 9, and she set a March 21 preliminary hearing. Miller is accused of attempted murder and assault of the 44-year-old victim on Aug. 6, 2014. The victim was stabbed several dozen times at 12:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Renaissance Avenue and Towne Centre Drive. Miller did not know the victim, and so far it appears to be a random attack. Miller’s father said at the time that his son has a mental illness and was off his medications at the time of the attack. The younger Miller was on probation at the time for carrying a knife around his family. Miller is in the central jail on $550,000 bail. — Neal Putnam