Caleb Lawrence McGillvary

Caleb Lawrence McGillvary (born September 3, 1988)^[1] also known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker and Caleb Kai Lawrence Yodhehwawheh,^[4] is a Canadian man initially known for an interview for FOX where he described how he used a hatchet to defend against a man claiming to be Jesus.^[5] He is a suspect in a New Jersey murder.^[6][7]

Background

McGillvary has stated that he was raised in a fundamentalist-Christian-cult, that his parents had been divorced,^[8] and that he had been molested in his youth.^[9][10][11] He has also stated that he took on the name "Kai" after taking part in a "spirit walk" while living on a Native American reservation. Prior to the incident in Fresno in 2013, McGillvary had been living as a transient, which he has described as "homefree".^[9] McGillvary has said that he was from Sophia, West Virginia, and also that he was born during 1988 in Western Canada.^[12]

Fresno incident

In February 2013 McGillvary (identifying himself in the video only as "Kai") was videotaped giving an interview where he described his part in an incident where a man drove his car into a Pacific Gas and Electric employee in Fresno, California. The man, later identified as Jett Simmons McBride,^[13] claimed that he was Jesus and that he had been sent to save the earth shortly before attacking a woman present at the site. McGillvary, who had been riding as a passenger in the car with McBride, hit him in the head with a hatchet in order to stop McBride's attack, which proved to be successful.^[14] The full version of the interview, during which McGillvary described the incident in further detail, was posted to the internet and went viral.^[15] McGillvary later testified against McBride when he was brought to court.^[9] McBride has since claimed that McGillvary was the one who had "yanked" the steering wheel to aim at the Pacific Gas and Electric employee.^[16] Eyewitness testimony at McBride's trial refuted this, but witnesses also stated that several Pacific employees had to subdue McGillvary as he was "swinging [his hatchet] at shoulder level at anybody that would try to come at him".^[17]

Murder allegations

On May 16, 2013, an arrest warrant was issued for McGillvary for suspicion of the murder of New Jersey former Army military attorney Joseph Galfy Jr, who had been discovered dead inside of his home in Clark, New Jersey.^[6] McGillvary was arrested May 16 at a Philadelphia bus terminal by the Philadelphia Police after he was identified by a Starbucks employee.^[18][19] His bail was set at $3 million and since his extradition to New Jersey, he has been held in the Union County Jail in Elizabeth, New Jersey. McGillvary's last Facebook post before he was arrested said: "what would you do if you woke up with a groggy head, metallic taste in your mouth, in a strangers house... walked to the mirror and seen cum dripping from the side of your face from your mouth, and started wretching, realizing that someone had drugged, raped, and blown their fucking load in you? what would you do?"^[20] His trial began January 6, 2014, and McGillvary has pleaded not guilty.^[21][22]

References

External links

• Caleb Kai Lawrence Yodhehwawheh on Facebook
• Interview on TV