<p>A man known for entrapping alleged sexual predators by posing online as a 15-year-old girl was killed over the weekend in a confrontation with a man he accused of being a predator.</p>
<p>Robert Wayne Lee, 40, known as “Boopac Shakur” on social media, was shot and killed by one of two teenagers he confronted at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, police said.</p>
<p>Lee frequently shared videos of himself confronting alleged predators to his nearly 50,000 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/footagegang248/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followers</a> on Instagram and more than 11,000 followers <a href="https://www.facebook.com/boopac.shakur/?show_switched_toast=0&amp;show_invite_to_follow=0&amp;show_switched_tooltip=0&amp;show_podcast_settings=0&amp;show_community_review_changes=0&amp;show_community_rollback=0&amp;show_follower_visibility_disclosure=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on Facebook</a>.</p>
<p>Lee confronted two teenagers, ages 17 and 18, at a restaurant in Pontiac, Michigan, just north of Detroit. He accused one of the teens of being a pedophile and punched him, according to a news release from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.</p>
<p>The teen who was punched pulled out a knife, and the other teen, suspected to be the younger one, pulled out a pistol and shot Lee multiple times, police said.</p>
<p>Lee was transported to the hospital where he died of his injuries.</p>
<p>The teens fled but were arrested on Saturday, police said.</p>
<p>The case has been turned over to the prosecutor&#8217;s office, a spokesperson for the sheriff&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/02/boopac-shakur-robert-wayne-lee-killed/71029771007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> USA Today.</p>
<p>A GoFundMe <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/hu2cnu-honoring-a-hero" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> Lee&#8217;s daughter, Ah&#8217;vyana, survives him and calls him a &#8220;true hometown hero&#8221; who &#8220;successfully exposed&#8221; 132 predators. The fundraiser has already raised more than $10,000 as of Tuesday, and the money will be used for his funeral expenses and Ah&#8217;vyana, &#8220;providing her with the opportunities and education that Robert dreamt of for her,&#8221; according to the fundraiser.</p>
<p>&#8220;Robert dedicated his life to protecting the innocence of our children from those with malicious intentions,&#8221; the GoFundMe says.</p>
<p>Police <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/boopac-shakur-dead-robert-lee/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Lee&#8217;s “one-man crusade has led to the arrest and criminal charges being filed against several men” but that “he has also mistakenly identified someone as a sexual predator who was not.”</p>
<p>“While we certainly understand his desire to hold child predators accountable, many times well-intentioned individuals who engaged in this don’t know the standard of evidence required for convictions and often underestimate the potential for violence confronting a suspected predator,” Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.</p>
<p>The sheriff added that confronting a suspected sexual predator has &#8220;the potential for violence.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They feel trapped and often lash out violently,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Lee&#8217;s videos have led to at least four arrests, sheriff&#8217;s officials <a href="https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2023/01/15/preying-on-alleged-child-predators/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Oakland Press earlier this year.</p>
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<p>One of those arrests was of a 33-year-old sheriff’s deputy working in the county jail who was charged with one felony count of accosting a child for immoral purposes. He was fired after <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/02/boopac-shakur-robert-wayne-lee-killed/71029771007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly</a> trying to solicit who he thought was a 15-year-old girl but was actually Lee posing as a child.</p>
<p>Other social media personalities have <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/online-child-predators-rise-of-these-criminals-vigilantes-trying-to-catch-them-legal-battle-that-follows/287-4ef0592d-7a7a-4a98-bcf9-771a1c09d4d8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed</a> a similar method as Lee&#8217;s for catching alleged child predators, often posting videos of the harrowing confrontations on YouTube.</p>
<p>Police have frequently <a href="https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/contests/police-ask-local-vigilante-groups-trying-to-expose-child-sex-predators-to-stop/521-94d49d8c-fbe5-4a1a-8368-98190502edea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discouraged</a> the &#8220;vigilante&#8221; groups.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, reports of online child predators are on the rise.</p>
<p>In 2020, there were 37,872 <a href="https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2021/rise-in-online-enticement-and-other-trends--ncmec-releases-2020-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> of online enticement <a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/online-child-predators-rise-of-these-criminals-vigilantes-trying-to-catch-them-legal-battle-that-follows/287-4ef0592d-7a7a-4a98-bcf9-771a1c09d4d8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made</a> to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline, according to an analysis of the data. That&#8217;s up nearly 98% from 19,174 reports in 2019.</p>

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