Teenage TikTok Star Whose Ex-Cop Dad Shot Teenage Stalker Has Stalking Case Against Another Teenager Thrown Out Of Court

The 15-year-old Florida TikTok star whose ex-cop father shot and killed an 18-year-old boy who stalked his daughter and had traveled hundreds of miles to her home has had her stalking case she brought against another teenage boy thrown out of court.

Ava Majury, 15, had claimed the alleged stalker had been following her around school and had also communicated with Eric Justin, the 18-year-old who fired a shot through the front door of her home. On Monday she told Judge Kyle S. Cohen that she had dropped out of school and was suffering nightmares.

Her attorney, Lanny Davis, stated, “What she loves  — what she needs more than anything as a teenager — is to be in school with her friends playing soccer. … Yet the fear proven is that she stayed home, because she feared.” The alleged stalker’s attorney countered that his client had only tried to help Majury, and never threatened her.

In February, Davis asserted, “She is genuinely afraid for her safety. It is a shame that it too often seems it takes a tragedy for everyone to ask: Why didn’t we act sooner?”

“Social media can connect people of all walks of life and create a sense of community,” a statement from Ava said. “But I’m telling my story so that young people and parents are also aware of the dangers of social media,” Fox News reported.

Ava also said, “I could never have imagined my innocent posts would result in a stranger showing up at my front door with a shotgun…I urge young people and parents to immediately report any threat or signal of violence, and not wait until it’s too late.”

On Monday, Cohen ruled that Majury’s lawyers had not presented enough evidence to allow him to grant Ava Majury an injunction for protection against stalking.

Majury was 14 with viral videos showing her singing, dancing or pulling pranks, when she noticed in early 2020 that one of her followers, Eric Rohan Justin, 18, of Ellicott City, Md., was becoming obsessed with her, messaging her in Snapchat and on Instagram, and even joining online games she played with her brothers, The New York Times reported in a lengthy piece about the story. Ava initially responded to Justin as she did with other fans, but learned he was buying her personal information, including her cellphone number, from her friends in New Jersey and Florida. He then would call or text her.

“Ava’s parents allowed her to sell Mr. Justin a couple of selfies that she had already posted to Snapchat,” The Times noted, continuing:

After that, Mr. Justin messaged Ava on Venmo with a breakdown of what he would pay for “booty pics” and photos of her feet, “stuff that a 14-year-old shouldn’t be sending,” she said. She blocked him on all her accounts. In Venmo messages viewed by The Times, Mr. Justin pleaded with her to unblock him, sending $159.18, then $100, and finally $368.50 with the message, “sorry this is all I have left i’m broke.” Mr. Majury said he texted Mr. Justin’s cellphone, told him that Ava was a minor, and demanded that he stop contacting her.

On July 10, 2020, Justin came to the Majury’s home in Naples, Florida, armed with a shotgun, which he used to blow open the front door before the shotgun jammed. That prompted Ava’s father, Rob Majury, a retired police lieutenant, to give chase but he fell, gashing his knee, as Justin fled. But later Justin returned and when he pointed the gun at Majury, Rob Majury shot and killed him.

After Judge Cohen dismissed the stalking case, Ava Majury said, “Although today didn’t go as we wanted it to, I’m glad I got my truth out, and my story was told.”