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TikTok star Ava Majury sold $300 selfies to ‘stalker who then tried to kill her’ & will stay on site to make $1,700 vids
A TEENAGE TikTok star sold selfies to her stalker before he showed up at her home with a gun.
Stalker Eric Rohan Justin, 18, bought two pictures of now 15-year-old Ava Majury’s face from her just months before he traveled to her home and attempted to kill her before being shot dead by Ava’s father.
Good Morning AmericaEric Rohan Justin showed up at the Majury family’s home last July with a shotgun[/caption]
Instagram @ava.majuryAva’s parents allowed her to sell selfies of only her face to her stalker[/caption]
Justin showed up at the Majury family’s home last July with a shotgun and two cell phones containing hundreds of pictures of Ava.
Ava’s father Rob Majury, 51, shot Justin dead at 4:30am after Justin blasted open the front door with the gun.
Justin had been stalking and obsessing over the TikTok star for months on the app under the username EricJustin111 before turning to other social media platforms to barrage her with messages.
Ava’s parents allowed her to sell selfies of only her face to Justin, who paid $300 on Venmo before asking for explicit photos of her body. The request prompted Rob to intervene and text Justin to request that he stop reaching out to Ava, who blocked him on all accounts.
“It was just pictures of my face, which is what I assume that he was paying for,” Ava said in her family’s interview on Good Morning America. “My whole thing is my pretty smile — that’s my content.”
Unable to contact the girl, Justin proceeded to buy Ava’s photos and personal information from Ava’s peers and even told one of Ava’s classmates of his plans to harm her after gaining her address.
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Ava brought the threats to her family’s attention, but they saw the messages as not credible. Rob, a former police lieutenant, said that he didn’t think Justin would come all the way from his home in Maryland to enact his “diabolical plan.”
When the stalker showed up at the Florida house in the middle of the night and shot open the door, Ava, her mother, and her two brothers ran to a bedroom while Rob grabbed his gun and went to the front of the home.
Rob shot Justin after he would not put down his shotgun. The teenager, who has never been pictured, died later in the hospital from his injuries.
“I had to do what I had to do to protect my family and I made sure of it,” the father said.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Ava, now 15, has over 1.2million followers on TikTok since she joined in 2020 and she plans on continuing to build her account with her family’s permission.
“Her creations, her contacts, her videos became such a big part of her that to take it away would have been hard,” her father told the New York Times.
Ava has three separate accounts on the popular app, each catering to a different audience.
She told The Times: ‘I have three TikTok accounts, so I could have one brand come to me and be like, ‘Oh, I’ll do $1,000 for one video on your main account,’ and I’ll be like, ‘Oh great, I have two other accounts that are different types of people on there.”‘
“So altogether, I’m making $1,700 off just my name, because I opened up three accounts rather than just building off one.”
Despite the threats and stalking incidents that continue because of some obsessed followers, the family remains hopeful and focused on the benefits that the platform is bringing them.
“We know there are going to be two sides, and some people won’t understand,” Ava’s mother Kim said.
“Why should we allow them to stop her? Maybe she’s meant to bring awareness to all this.”
Rob Majury will reportedly not face any charges for the shooting under the state’s “stand your ground” law.
The shooting investigation reportedly remains ongoing.
Good Morning AmericaAva’s father will reportedly not face any charges for the shooting[/caption]
TikTokAva has three separate accounts on TikTok[/caption]
Instagram @ava.majuryAva was 13 when she first downloaded the app in 2020[/caption]
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