A newly surfaced bodycam video shows the man accused of stabbing a Pittsburgh pediatrician to death and critically wounding his wife declaring "I am King Tutankhamun" to Florida deputies during an encounter more than a year before the attack, according to reporting by Fox News and a transcript of the footage the network posted.
The suspect, identified in coverage of the case as Elijah Hemingway, is accused in the killing of Dr. Idris Evans, a pediatric critical care medical director at UPMC, who police say was fatally stabbed in bed in his Edgewood home after midnight Thursday. His wife was critically injured in the same attack. Their two young children escaped the home unharmed, according to the Washington Times and ABC News.
According to Fox News, the bodycam footage dates to an April 2025 encounter in Florida, where Hemingway is heard making a series of unusual declarations to deputies before the clip ends.
"I am King Tutankhamun, resurrected, the mummy y'all talk about, the Jesus y'all talk about every night you try to kill," Hemingway said in the footage, per the network's transcript. "You see my *** around? Is that a, where'd you get that? From God. In the Fresco Park. He's running on top of cars. Come here. Snitch yourself. Snitch yourself. **** you all. ****"
The Fox News post carrying the clip states that Hemingway "is now accused of stabbing a beloved doctor to death" and that "police say Dr. Idris Evans and his wife were attacked in bed." The network's post was published Sunday evening and circulated widely across conservative social media within hours.
The Washington Times, in its own post on the case, reported that Evans was killed and his wife critically injured in what was described as a home invasion in Pittsburgh, and that police arrested a suspect with a history of violent encounters. A separate Washington Times post identified Evans as a pediatric medical director at UPMC and said he was "fatally stabbed during a home invasion" by an intruder "claiming to be God," with his wife remaining in critical condition.
Local coverage of the case has been more measured. CNN reported that a Pittsburgh pediatrician was fatally stabbed in bed at his home after midnight Thursday and that questions remain about the apprehended suspect's potential motive and whether he knew the doctor. ABC News similarly reported that a pediatric critical care doctor was stabbed to death and a woman was stabbed and critically injured by a suspect who allegedly attacked them while they were asleep. A separate local outlet reported that officials have not provided any information on a motive in the attack.
WPXI reported that Hemingway is now facing charges in a separate incident, a sexual assault in Wilkinsburg, in addition to the charges tied to the Edgewood stabbing. That development has become a focal point for accounts arguing that the suspect should have been off the streets long before Thursday's attack.
The victim's colleagues and former patients have begun speaking publicly about his work. WTAE reported that Evans was remembered as "an advocate for his patients," with a former pediatric intensive care patient describing his impact in a statement carried by the station. That tribute has been shared by conservative accounts alongside the bodycam footage, pairing the remembrance of the doctor with outrage over how the suspect was handled in prior encounters.
The sequence of posts carrying the story shows how the narrative moved from local crime coverage to a national political argument in less than forty-eight hours. Fox News published the bodycam clip and the Tutankhamun quote Sunday evening. The Washington Times posts, filed earlier the same day, established the basic facts: the doctor's identity, his role at UPMC, the home invasion, the wife's condition, and the children's escape. By Monday, the story was being carried by a widening set of conservative accounts, each adding the same core elements, the bodycam footage, the suspect's prior charges, and the tribute to the victim, without introducing new reporting of their own.
What distinguishes the new wave of coverage is the framing: the earlier Washington Times posts treated the story as a crime report, while the accounts amplifying the Fox clip are treating it as the latest data point in a broader argument about crime, mental health, and the criminal justice system's handling of repeat offenders. The label "King Tut" has become shorthand in those posts for the suspect's apparent disconnection from reality at the time of the Florida encounter, and for the question of why he was not in custody afterward.
It is not yet known whether Hemingway has entered a plea in the Edgewood case or whether he has retained counsel. It is also not yet known whether authorities in Florida took any action against him following the April 2025 encounter depicted in the bodycam video, or whether that encounter resulted in charges. The relationship between the suspect and the Evans family, if any, has not been established in public reporting, and officials have not announced a motive.
Next News Network could not independently verify the claims circulating in these posts, including the assertion that the suspect in the bodycam footage is the same man charged in the Evans stabbing, beyond what Fox News and other outlets have already reported on the record.
The Evans family has not issued a public statement. UPMC has not commented publicly on the case beyond confirming Evans's role. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
What is documented is this: a pediatrician was killed in his bed, his wife was critically wounded, two children got out of the house unharmed, a suspect is in custody, and a fifteen-month-old bodycam video from a Florida street is now being shown to millions of Americans as evidence that the system failed. Whether it did is a question of policy. What is not a question is that a family is destroyed and a doctor who spent his career keeping children alive is gone.
Our Take
The Tutankhamun video is the kind of detail that makes a story impossible to ignore, and that is precisely why it is being shared. But the video is also a distraction from the only question that matters: how does a man who announces to deputies that he is a resurrected pharaoh end up on the street, in another state, allegedly stabbing a doctor to death in his own bed? That is not a mystery. That is a policy failure, and it happened long before this week's headlines. The left will tell you the system is underfunded. The right will tell you it is a revolving door. Both can be true, and neither explains why it took a pediatrician's murder to get the country's attention.
