After intervening to save an utility worker from an attack Caleb McGillvary became an Internet sensation thanks to a 5-minute long profanity- laced interview he gave a Fresno news affiliate.
Now McGillvary, who was commonly referred to as Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, has been arrested for allegedly beating a New Jersey lawyer to death in his home, according to the Huffington Post.
McGillvary was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station, according to Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow.
"I believe that everyone is a little safer with this person off the streets," Romankow said of McGillvary.
McGillvary is charged with murdering Joseph Galfy Jr. The 73 year-old attorney was found dead at his home by police two days after authorities say he had met McGillvary in New York City, according to the Associated Press. McGillvary is thought to have spent at least two days at the home of Galfy in Clark, N.J.
McGillvary posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday asking "What would you do?" if you awoke in a stranger's house and found that you had been drugged and sexually assaulted, according to The Huffington Post.
McGillvary came to the public's attention after an incident in February. McGillvary had been riding in a car with a man who struck a Pacific Gas and Electric worker, then got out of the car and attacked the worker. McGillvary intervened and saved the worker by striking the attacker in the head several times with a hatchet, reported the Fresno Bee.
"That woman was in danger," McGillvary said in an interview with KMPH-TV. "He just finished, what looked like at the time, killing somebody, and if he hadn't done that he would have killed more people."
McGillvary was charged with murder and is being held on $3 million bail. He will be transported back to New Jersey to stand trial, reported the Associated Press.
The interview that gave McGillvary his Internet fame is posted below. It is very not safe for work due to profane language.
