“This is all your fault,” he said.
“The subject was most likely a stalker that resulted from her daughter’s extensive social media involvement,” the Collier County Sheriff’s Office report read, citing statements to them by Ms. Majury. “Since her daughter’s involvement in social media, multiple subjects have tried to find out her family’s address in the past.” Ms. Majury gave them contact information for Mr. Justin, the report said.
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 during an attempted burglary. The office has not named the shooter.
The Majurys said police told them Mr Justin had two cell phones with thousands of photos of Ava and hundreds of hours of her videos.
Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk and investigators from his office did not respond to requests for interviews. “This remains an active investigation and there are no updates,” Karie Partington, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, said in an email.
The shooter’s identity was confirmed by his father, Justin Dominic. Mr. Dominic, a software engineer separated from Mr. Justin’s mother, said the family had lived in the United States before the divorce and then moved to Mr. Dominic’s native country, India. When his parents separated, Mr. Justin chose to move back to the US with his mother, said his father, who recalled their move from around 2015.
mr. Dominic, who said he spoke to researchers, remembered his son as a good student who did well in math at Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City. “He was a nice guy. I’m short of words,” he said in an interview. ‘I don’t know what went wrong with him. He made the wrong choice.”
After the shooting, the Majurys, staggering, moved in with friends. A few days later, Ms. Majury received an invitation from an aspiring agent for Ava to visit Los Angeles, meet other influencers, and attend a few red carpet events. One was for “Glo-Up Girls,” a line of makeover-ready dolls advertised on a YouTube channel featuring six teenage influencers who “live in a mansion and take on sensational Glo-Up challenges.”
