{"id":294600,"date":"2026-09-26T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294600\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T18:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:22:06","slug":"upmc-doctor-murder-suspect-elijah-hemingway-now-facing-charges-for-wilkinsburg-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294600\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC doctor murder suspect Elijah Hemingway now facing charges for Wilkinsburg sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man accused of stabbing a Pittsburgh doctor and his wife while they were asleep in their Edgewood home is now facing charges for a separate incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Elijah Hemingway, 32, is charged with homicide, aggravated assault, burglary and more for killing Idris Evans, a pediatric critical care physician at Children\u2019s Hospital and an assistant professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccm.pitt.edu\/people\/idris-vr-evans-md-msc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ccm.pitt.edu\/people\/idris-vr-evans-md-msc\" target=\"_blank\">the University of Pittsburgh<\/a>, and critically injuring his wife. She is still hospitalized, now in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-charged-with-edgewood-double-stabbing-that-left-upmc-doctor-dead-his-wife-critically-injured\/YM2VVCJPIBDVRGFZSTKAMX7VLI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-charged-with-edgewood-double-stabbing-that-left-upmc-doctor-dead-his-wife-critically-injured\/YM2VVCJPIBDVRGFZSTKAMX7VLI\/\">UPMC doctor stabbed to death, wife injured in attack inside Edgewood home while they slept<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The victim\u2019s two children, ages 8 and 12, were able to make it out of the home safely.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Allegheny County Police Department says Hemingway is now facing charges for a sexual assault in Wilkinsburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">RELATED COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/i-am-king-tutankhamun-video-shows-erratic-behavior-upmc-doc-murder-suspect\/IJVPO6FXHJGWXDPS6IZCGMZYJU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/i-am-king-tutankhamun-video-shows-erratic-behavior-upmc-doc-murder-suspect\/IJVPO6FXHJGWXDPS6IZCGMZYJU\/\">\u2018I am King Tutankhamun\u2019: Video shows erratic behavior of UPMC doctor murder suspect <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ACPD says during the homicide investigation, Wilkinsburg Police contacted detectives about a reported sexual assault on Sept. 23 around 10:30 a.m. The victim reportedly said she was walking on a path that connects an alley to West Street when she was sexually assaulted by an unknown man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Detectives say they were able to collect multiple items that connect Hemingway to the reported sexual assault. They also found the victim\u2019s cell phone that was reported stolen during the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ACPD says Hemingway is now facing charges of rape, sexual assault and robbery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man accused of stabbing a Pittsburgh doctor and his wife while they were asleep in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40706,37370,16976,121507,121614,73,75,74,337,121909,121910,868,121911],"class_list":["post-294600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-acpd","tag-allegheny-county-police-department","tag-edgewood","tag-elijah-hemingway","tag-idris-evans","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sexual-assault","tag-upmc-doctor-murdered","tag-upmc-doctor-stabbed","tag-wilkinsburg","tag-wilkinsburg-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294600","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=294600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}