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He said he also heard the voice of his grandfather. “If you don’t do it, I will,” he said his grandfather’s voice told him, with the voice adding, “This is your chance to make the right choice and join us in heaven.” Saleh, on the witness stand Wednesday, said he diagnosed Eaton with a psychotic disorder that includes delusions and hallucinations. “As a result of that mental disease he lacked the ability to appreciate the criminality of his conduct,” Saleh told jurors under questioning from Joshua O’Hara, Eaton’s attorney. Eaton has been held in custody since his arrest a day after the shooting. The prosecution closed its case Tuesday, presenting forensic evidence they say ties Eaton to the shootings, including a handgun seized from his apartment that matched casings recovered from the scene.