A young American, who became famous on TikTok, told the “New York Times” how her father killed the boy who harassed her to the point of going home one day.
At 13, when she had just reached the legal age to register on social networks, Ava Majury opened a TikTok account. Quickly, she attracted more than a million subscribers, registered to watch her dance videos or playback songs. But what could have been a dream turned into a nightmare. The now 15-year-old girl tells the “New York Times” that she was harassed by an 18-year-old boy. The situation worsened for her to the point that the latter, Eric Rohan Justin, one day went to her home, forcing her father to defend her by fatally shooting the obsessed teenager.
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It all started when she received the first messages from him. At the time, she replied to him, as she used to do with “all (her) fans”. But the young boy was not just a regular subscriber and he gradually managed to get in touch with Ava’s classmates, offering them money in exchange for photos of her. The tiktoker, after learning that, stopped talking to those who were supposed to be friends. But she also thought that she could capitalize on these photos and asked her parents for permission to sell selfies to Eric Rohan Justin, which she had already shared on Snapchat. “I wasn’t sending my body or anything. Just pictures of my face, because I guess that’s why he was paying. All my content comes from my pretty smile,” he told the New York Times.
The father did not believe in the dangerousness of the stalker
But this idea only accentuated the obsession of the boy who began to ask him for photos of his feet or his buttocks. This is where Ava cut off all contact with him. That didn’t stop the stalker who begged him every day to unblock him from social media. From there, Ava’s father, Rob, a former police lieutenant, took matters into his own hands, himself texting Eric asking him to stop talking to his daughter. But he was not calmed down and managed, again, to contact comrades in order to prepare his attack, indicates the “New York Times”.
Initially, Rob Majury did not believe in the dangerousness of the young man. Until July 10, 2020, when he showed up at the family home and pointed his gun. “All I remember is the sound I heard, I felt it in my chest, when I looked up there was a hole in my door,” recalls the teenager. While his mother called for help, his father tried to chase after the attacker but fell and let him escape. However, he decided to go get his gun just in case while waiting for the police to arrive. But before they arrived, Eric returned and refused to let go of his gun, forcing the father to fatally shoot him. Rescuers found hundreds of photos of Ava in her two phones. Despite the experience, the teenager is still on social media, with her mum explaining she didn’t want a ‘crazy’ person stopping her from doing what she loves.
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