By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-09-26 01:30:02 | Updated at 2026-09-26 02:34:59
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The madman accused of stabbing a Pennsylvania doctor to death this week once wildly professed to police he was King Tut as he ran around a Florida parking lot.
Elijah Hemingway — the 32-year-old charged with killing Dr. Idris Evans after breaking into his home Thursday — bizarrely declared, “I am King Tutankhamun” and swore to cops he meant no harm while leaping across cars in Daytona, according to bodycam obtained by WPXI.
A Florida police officer can be heard asking Hemingway, “do you have any thoughts of harming yourself or anyone else?” in the footage.
“No, I am a spirit. I am not a physical being,” Hemingway shot back.
He then claimed to be the reincarnation of the ancient Egyptian Pharoah.
Six of Hemingway’s 22 past criminal charges stemmed from raucous run-ins with police and a girlfriend: three for the manic parking lot spectacle and three for allegedly beating his gal pal, according to authorities.
Hemingway was arrested in July on burglary and theft charges stemming from a separate February home break-in — but he was released on “non-monetary bail” just hours later, court records obtained by The Post show.
He would go on to allegedly break into Evans’ home Thursday and launch a crazed knife attack that left the pediatric critical care physician dead and his wife with severe stab wounds.
Gina Evans, Idris’ wife, told police that Hemingway appeared “psychotic” and was stripped down to his underwear, ranting and raving about God and “being God” when he burst into the Allegheny County home just after 12:30 a.m.
The couple tried to fight back, and Evans yelled “Elijah” during the middle-of-the-night attack as if he knew him, his wife said after witnessing her husband’s horrific murder, WPXI reported, citing court documents.
Hemingway claimed he was invited to the house, but officials couldn’t verify his story — and he was unable to tell police how he knew Evans.
The Evans’ children, ages 8 and 12, ran to a neighbor’s home after their mom told them to run away.
The alleged lunatic stabber remained at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh on Friday.
Evans was a physician and the co-Medical Director of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s Pediatric Transport Team as well as an Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, according to his online bio.
“The UPMC and University of Pittsburgh community is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Dr. Idris Evans, a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh,” UPMC said in a statement to WPXI.
