Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker wanted for murder

Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker sought in New Jersey slaying

The man who achieved fame as Kai, the home-free, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker when he struck a driver accused of attempting to run over a Pacific Gas & Electric work in February, is wanted on suspicion of murdering an attorney in New Jersey.

Kai is being sought for the killing of Joseph Galfy Jr., a Clark attorney found dead in his home Monday afternoon, Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said Thursday morning, the Star-Ledger in New Jersey reported.
The whereabouts of the 24-year-old suspect, whose real name is Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, are not known, Romankow said.

Romankow said that McGillvary, who he said cut his hair in an attempt to alter his appearance, was last seen at a light rail station in the Haddonfield area. The prosecutor said McGillvary is considered armed and dangerous, the Star-Ledger said.

An autopsy completed Tuesday afternoon determined Galfy, 73, died of blunt force trauma, the prosecutor's office said.

In a Facebook entry posted Tuesday, McGillvary intimates that he was drugged and raped, but does not say where or when the incident took place, the Star-Ledger reported

"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 ... dripping from the side of your face from your mouth, and started wretching, realizing that someone had drugged, raped, and (had sex with you)? what would you do?" it reads.

McGillvary gained fame and several television appearances for helping to stop a deadly attack in Fresno by pummeling a man with his hatchet.

The man McGillvary attacked, Jett McBride, 54, of Tacoma, Wash., is charged with the attempted murder of PG&E worker Rayshawn Neely for driving his car into PG&E workers on Feb. 1 near Marks and McKinley avenues.

At a Fresno County court hearing in February, a PG&E employee it was fellow workers who rescued Neely, not McGillvary.

McGillvary was a passenger in a car driven by McBride that reportedly struck Neely. According to court testimony, McBride then walked up to Neely and was assaulting him when a woman tried and help Neely. That's when McGillvary came out of the passenger side of McBride's car and struck McBride on the head three or four times, knocking him down, according to testimony.

PG&E worker Kenneth Simon testified he and fellow workers told McGillvary to leave, which McGillvary did. McBride then stood up and moved toward Neely again. McBride pulled at Neely and four or five workers threw McBride to the ground and subdued him, according to testimony.

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I'm confused about why he was in court. That article isn't very good.

 

Online star 'Kai the hitchhiker' waives extradition from Pa., heads to NJ in lawyer's death

A man who gained Internet fame as "Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker" will be returning to New Jersey to face a murder charge in the death of a lawyer.

Caleb "Kai" McGillivary waived extradition Monday in a brief hearing in Philadelphia.

The 24-year-old McGillivary is charged with killing 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr. after the pair met in New York City. Authorities say Galfy was found beaten to death in his bedroom in Clark, N.J.

McGillivary was arrested this month after being spotted in a Philadelphia Starbucks.

He had gained fame in February after intervening in an attack on a California utility worker and giving an interview describing how he used a hatchet to fend off the attacker.


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