Teen TikTok Star's Dad Shoots, Kills Alleged Stalker Who Came To Their Home

A 15-year-old TikTok star and her family are speaking out after her father shot and killed her alleged stalker who showed up at their home with a gun last year.

Ava Majury has attracted more than 1.2 million followers on TikTok with her lip-syncing and dancing videos since she joined the social media platform in 2020.

However, Ava's parents said in new interviews with NBC's Gabe Gutierrez and the New York Times that one of their daughter's followers, 18-year-old Eric Rohan Justin, of Ellicott City, Maryland, allegedly became dangerously obsessed with Ava and showed up at the Majury family's home in Naples, Florida, with a gun in July 2021.

"Someone had tried to breach the door with what I assumed was a shotgun," Ava's dad, Rob Majury, a retired police lieutenant, told NBC.

Justin sent Ava hundreds of messages on social media and paid her classmates for information about the TikTok star, her family alleged.

Ava's parents told the New York Times that they allowed their daughter to sell Justin two selfies she had already posted online for $300. However, Justin soon started requesting explicit photos from the minor, her family alleged.

"I had an opportunity to actually text this person and said, 'Hey, she's a minor, and you need to not contact her anymore and we will notify the authorities,'" Ava's father said.

On July 10, 2021, Justin arrived at the Majury family's doorstep with a shotgun and started firing shots through the front door, the family alleged.

Ava’s mother Kim called 911, and her father Rob went to chase Justin but fell. Justin fled.

Rob told officers with the Collier County Sheriff's Office that he returned to their home, retrieved his handgun and stood guard at the front door as he waited for police to arrive.

Rob said Justin later returned, refused to drop his weapon and charged at the ex-cop, causing Ava's father to shoot the teenage boy. Justin later died from his injuries.

"At that point, I took action and neutralized the threat," Rob said.

After the shooting, the Collier County Sheriff's Office told local media at the time that a man had been shot and killed by the resident of a home in Raffia Preserve after firing a gun into the home, in an attempted home invasion robbery. The office did not name the gunman.

The Majurys said police told them that Justin was carrying two cellphones that contained thousands of photos of Ava and hundreds of hours of her videos.

Police later determined that under Florida's "stand your ground" law, Ava's father used justifiable deadly force in the incident.

Sheriff's office spokeswoman Karie Partington said in an email to the New York Times that the case remains an active investigation and that there are "no updates."

Following the shooting incident, the Majury family moved, and Ava began homeschooling. However, the teen continues to post on social media.

Her father said they now have "more security on our end, more reviews of accounts [and] more checking in."