The deranged hammer-wielding vandal who busted several windows at Vice President JD Vance’s home in Cincinnati is allegedly the son of a prominent millionaire family — and appears to have been going by “Julia” in recent weeks.
William DeFoor, 26, was arrested early Monday after allegedly shattering four windows at Vance’s home. Police said that DeFoor was attempting to break into the home around midnight.
The Vances, who moved into the vice president’s official residence in Washington, DC, after the inauguration, were not in Ohio at the time.
It’s unclear whether DeFoor identifies as transgender or nonbinary, but he recently appeared to be posting under the name Julia DeFoor. Cops listed the suspect’s name as William, and his gender as male.
In his mugshot, DeFoor has an unkempt, matted mullet – and a dead-eyed stare.
DeFoor’s father, also named William, is a successful Harvard University graduate.
He boasts a decades-long history as a pediatric urologist in Cincinnati and works as a professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine.
The family lives in a $1.3 million house in the city’s wealthy Hyde Park neighborhood.
The elder DeFoor donated thousands to Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign in 2024 after years of small contributions to a PAC that lobbied for urologists, according to federal records.
He is also a longtime Democratic supporter, according to his public contributions. He donated upwards of $5,000 to former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ respective campaigns in 2020 and 2024.
He also previously backed a federal assault weapons ban in the wake of the Uvalde Elementary School shooting, according to his Facebook.
The younger DeFoor appeared to have a fall from grace after graduating from the Summit Country Day School in 2018, where he was hailed as a candidate for the US Presidential Scholars Program.
He had a brief two-year stint at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, but appeared to drop out in 2020, according to his Facebook. He said earlier this year he was attending Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.
The alleged vandal has a tricky mental health history, including a 2024 sentence for two counts of vandalism at a local interior design company.
Instead of a standard conviction, DeFoor was sentenced to two years of mandatory mental health treatment, which is still ongoing, according to court documents obtained by Cincinnati.com.
In April 2023, DeFoor was charged with trespassing at the UC Health psychiatric and emergency services. He was originally held on a $10,000 bond — but a judge determined he was not mentally competent to stand trial and the counts were dismissed in a Nov. 8 filing that year.
DeFoor is charged with obstructing official business, criminal damaging or endangering, criminal trespass, and vandalism, according to Hamilton County jail records.
His first court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday.
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