The motorist suspected of crashing a vehicle into the gates outside Jennifer Aniston's home repeatedly posted about the "Friends" star on social media.
Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, has been booked on suspicion of felony vandalism and accused of driving his gray Chrysler PT Cruiser into barriers outside her home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles at about 12:20 p.m. Monday, law enforcement sources have said.
"I’ve been writing, since the Beginning Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, with you," Carwyle wrote on Facebook on March 26, correctly citing her middle name.
In October, he posted an advertisement Aniston, 56, did for Lolavie Haircare products and wrote: "I LOVE YOU Emanuel Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle!"
Days earlier, he complained online that unnamed forces were keeping them apart.
"If someone out there can reach Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, let her know about the corruption going on trying to keep Me from her, you will be Blessed!" he wrote.
Carwyle left his native Mississippi in September to live out of his car at a Walmart Supercenter in the L.A. suburb of Burbank, the man's longtime childhood friend Steve Rhea told NBC News on Tuesday.
Carwyle had long held a well-paying job as an automobile service technician but quit that gig five years ago, leading to a steady decline ever since — with delusions that he's a Christ-like figure who is married to Aniston, his friend said.
"We just hope he gets the help he needs," Rhea said. "I hope there's some way to fix him, but I don't know."
Another childhood friend, Marty Merritt, said he's been concerned about Carwyle since the pandemic, when his friendly schoolmate's personality flipped: "This is not Jimmy."
"I really hate that this happened to Miss Aniston, this was terrible," said Merritt, a Baptist pastor. "But since it did, the only thing I hope is this would get enough attention, attention that could get Jimmy some help. He needs some serious help. This is rock bottom."
Carwyle, booked into jail late Monday, is being held without bail and would have to be taken before a judge no later than Thursday.
It wasn’t immediately clear Tuesday afternoon whether Carwyle had an attorney.
The police investigation continues as detectives comb through his social media or try to determine whether any writings were left in his car, law enforcement sources said.
