Homeless drifter Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, 30, who had a brush with Internet fame in 2013 after he saved a person from a would-be attacker while hitchhiking, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the beating death of a 73-year-old man. McGillvary became a viral star in February 2013 when a reporter in Fresno, Calif., interviewed the “surfer dude-bro” hitchhiker. However, the one-time hero was arrested later that year for the murder of attorney Joseph Galfy Jr. He faces life in prison and is set to be sentenced June 13 on the first-degree murder charge. "Kai" said he intervened on the side of a California roadway to thwart an unprovoked attack on a Pacific Gas & Electric Utility employee.

Source: Fox News April 24, 2019 23:26 UTC