By John Pollock & Brandon Thurston
The case involving Shawn Chan, who was accused of stalking Liv Morgan, has concluded with Chan being found not guilty.
The U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida held its trial on Monday involving Chan. The court ruled that the defendant was found not guilty by reason of insanity on a charge of interstate domestic violence, which carried a sentence of up to five years in prison. Chan has been detained for just over one year up to this point.
The court session lasted just over thirty minutes. Chan waived his right to a jury trial, allowing Judge Mary S. Scriven to decide his case. The judge determined that the U.S. Marshal Service would coordinate with ICE to release the defendant into its custody. Chan is a Canadian resident.
Court records do not detail what’s next for Chan, though normal practice suggests ICE will continue to hold him in detention while a process to deport him from the U.S. proceeds.
Chan traveled from Scarborough, Ontario, to Florida on May 31, 2025. He arrived at Morgan’s residence, and surveillance footage detected Chan searching for a key and trying to enter the home. Chan remained at Morgan’s home for over two hours (Morgan was not present) and left a handwritten note saying he was paying a “friendly visit” and left his contact information.
Security footage shows Chan at one point picking up an air rifle pellet gun that was on Morgan’s front porch and attempting to open the front door while holding it.
Days later, Chan appeared at the WWE Performance Center, where Morgan was present for an NXT taping. Security recognized Chan, and he was arrested and taken to the Pasco County Detention Center.
The verdict arrives amid a wider conversation about talent safety, which heightened after many wrestlers were approached by fans in an unwelcome manner across a series of incidents observed around this year’s WrestleMania in Las Vegas.
Two separate psychologists determined that Chan was unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions due to the severity of his mental disease.
During an evaluation while in jail last August, Chan was diagnosed with delusional disorder and adjustment disorder with depressed and anxious moods. He claimed, apparently falsely, to have known Morgan in high school. “Thought content included obsessions, delusions of grandeur, erotomania, and paranoia,” was noted among Chan’s behavioral observations.
Clinicians noted that Chan had not been treated for mental health issues in the past, nor had he seen a doctor in more than 20 years.
Despite finding he was mentally ill, an evaluation found that he was otherwise intelligent. “[B]efore the onset of psychiatric symptoms or other potentially interfering factors, Mr. Chan likely functioned at a high average level of general intellectual ability.”
Chan reported to clinicians that he has heard the voice of God since his early 20s. The voice tells him what to do, he says, and he has continued to hear the voice while in jail.
Chan held the delusional belief that Morgan was his girlfriend and that he was traveling and visiting to check on her, he told psychologists.
Mr. Chan described a longstanding belief system involving professional wrestling figures and entertainment industry executives. He reported that beginning in adolescence, he developed ideas for characters and storylines that were later adopted by professional wrestlers. He stated that he believed certain wrestlers he encountered online were connected to him through this intellectual property and that he was owed recognition and financial compensation.
Mr. Chan reported that he believed a well-known professional wrestler was his significant other. He described traveling to Florida with the intention of contacting senior figures in professional wrestling through her and believed that visiting her residence was appropriate and justified. He stated that he left a letter at the front door of her home, slept on the porch, and attempted to enter the residence after hearing noises, believing he was checking on her safety. Mr. Chan endorsed beliefs involving a global conspiracy related to weapons and terrorism and described prominent entertainment figures as participating in efforts to combat this conspiracy. These beliefs were described as factual and accurate by Mr. Chan at the time of the offense.
The court documents indicate Chan, 42, was born in Hong Kong. He reported in his evaluation that he was neglected and physically punished as a child. In 1990, he and his family moved to Quebec, Canada. Growing up, he said he felt alienated because he was the only Asian student in school. He returned to Hong Kong for a time and reconnected with family there. In 2005, as an adult, he moved to Ontario. Though unemployed at the time of his arrest, he reported being previously employed for ten years as a computer technician.