Where Is Jett Simmons McBride Now? Details Explained

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Where is Jett Simmons McBride now? A new Netflix documentary tells the tale of the person thwarted via a hatchet-wielding hitchhiker who was now not what he seemed.

Jennifer Tisdale - Author

Actor William Holden once stated that "Hell is paved with good Samaritans." That sentiment is echoed loudly in Netflix's true crime documentary The Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker.

Like most true crime tales, this one is in no way what it seems. The excellent guys can be unhealthy guys, and the dangerous guys are extra sophisticated than they appear to start with look.

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Jett Simmons McBride is no longer the aforementioned hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, but he did are available touch with him. In reality, it was once the hitchhiker's hatchet that got here in contact with Jett's head as he used to be attacking anyone else. Kai the hitchhiker would later upward thrust to popularity then infamy in a tale that is completely stranger than fiction.

So, where is Jett Simmons McBride these days? Here's what we all know.

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Where is Jett Simmons McBride now?

In February 2013, Caleb McGivellry — who would later be known as Kai the hitchhiker — was catching a trip with Jett Simmons McBride when things took a figurative and literal turn.

According to Kai, McBride became to him and stated, "I've come to realize I'm Jesus Christ and I can get away with anything I want to. Watch this." At this level, McBride drove right into a workforce of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) workers who were doing road paintings, pinning one among them beneath his truck.

Rayshawn Neely was severely injured however that didn't forestall McBride from exiting his truck and dashing in opposition to him. Per ABC 13, one witness heard McBride yell to Neely, who is Black: "I am God. I am Jesus. I was sent here to take all the [racial slurs] to heaven."

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Another lady rushed to Neely's aide and used to be due to this fact attacked via McBride. Kai, hatchet in hand, then hit McBride time and again with the blunt finish of his hatchet thus subduing the motive force.

Months later, McBride used to be in courtroom where he used to be dealing with the proverbial song. ABC 6 reported that Tonya Baker, the woman who was saved by Kai, testified that McBrides's precise words were, "All the [expletives] have to go, have to die now."

McBride apologized to Neely as he wheeled himself out of the courtroom in a wheelchair and was even observed crying right through the trial. He would later be found not guilty of attempted murder, but could not get away a while away.

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Jett McBride used to be sent to a secure forensic health facility.

In January 2016, McBride tried to appeal the judgment handed all the way down to him in 2014. The Fresno County Superior Court found him responsible of "assault with a deadly weapon in which he personally inflicted great bodily injury." McBride plead not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury "found he was insane at the time he committed the offenses."

He used to be sentenced to a most of 9 years at Atascadero State Hospital. Distractify spoke with Phillip Koziel, the clinic's Public Information Officer, who may just now not ascertain if McBride was nonetheless a patient because of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulations. If McBride did serve the total sentence, he must be released in 2023.

For extra on this story, move The Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker on Netflix.

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