Suspect in Pittsburgh pediatrician's killing also charged with sexual assault hours earlier

Elijah Hemingway, 32, who is accused of killing a Pittsburgh pediatrician, has been charged with a separate sexual assault that police say happened hours before the killing. 1 2 The Allegheny County Police Department said in a Facebook post that Hemingway ambushed the woman as she walked along a path connecting to an alley in Wilkinsburg, and stole her cell phone. 1 2 Authorities said the woman did not know Hemingway, and that detectives recovered multiple items linking him to the assault along with her stolen phone. 1 2

After consulting the district attorney's office, county police filed additional charges including rape, sexual assault and robbery. 1 2 Dr. Idris Evans, 46, was stabbed in his home in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, while he and his wife slept, and was pronounced dead at a hospital; his wife was critically injured. 1 2 According to the police report, Evans' wife said the attacker appeared "psychotic", claimed to be "God", and that Evans called him "Elijah" as if he knew him; she said she did not know the suspect, and county authorities could not confirm any prior relationship. 1 2

Hemingway told police that Evans had invited him to the home and attacked him with a knife, but police said they found no stab wound on his back and could not locate the bicycle he said he rode there. 1 2 He faces seven charges over the home attack, including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and burglary, and court records show he has a criminal history dating to 2016 and was released without bail in July in connection with a February burglary. 1 2 The reports' day references are inconsistent: they place the assault on "Wednesday morning" and the home attack early "Thursday", while also calling it a midnight attack, so exact times remain unclear from this coverage. 1 2