{"id":293771,"date":"2026-09-25T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293771\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:48:11","slug":"pennsylvania-pediatric-doctor-fatally-stabbed-wife-wounded-by-man-claiming-to-be-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293771\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Pediatric Doctor Fatally Stabbed, Wife Wounded by Man Claiming to Be God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pediatric Doctor
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\n September 25, 2026
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A pediatric physician was fatally stabbed, and his wife has been left critically injured … after a man in his underwear claiming to be God allegedly broke into their home and attacked them in their sleep with a knife.<\/p>\n

Dr. Idris Evans — who was a pediatric critical care doctor at a children’s hospital — was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital … WPXI<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

His wife — who was also wounded in the attack — rushed next door to a neighbor’s to call 911 … and thankfully their two kids also escaped the home in time … according to WPXI.<\/p>\n

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When Allegheny County Police arrived … they say they found a very violent scene with Dr. Evans suffering “multiple severe stab wounds and lacerations to his trunk.”<\/p>\n

Assistant Superintendent of the Allegheny County Police Department, Vic Joseph, told WPXI … “Bedroom furniture broken, mirrors broken. It was a very graphic scene.”<\/p>\n

The suspect — identified as Elijah Hemingway, 32 — had allegedly broken into the Evans’ Edgewood home through a back window.<\/p>\n

Evans’ wife says her husband called out Elijah by name during the attack as the pair tried fighting off their alleged assailant.<\/p>\n

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Eventually, Elijah allegedly asked Evans’ wife for her car keys before cops say they found him bleeding and incapacitated in a neighboring backyard. According to local outlets, Elijah was seen in the back of an ambulance after the fatal incident.<\/p>\n

Hemingway — who was out on bail for another alleged burglary case — has since been charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, burglary, and criminal trespass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pediatric Doctor Stabbed to Death, Wife Wounded by Intruder in Underwear Published September 25, 2026 6:45 AM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-293771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}