Crime In NYC@Crime_In_NYC
Same incident as posted here earlier today.
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A Bronx TikToker who’s been trolled on social media and harassed following his arrest for sexually abusing a young girl has been charged with fatally stabbing a 17-year-old high school student.
Andrew Tollinche, 22, was fending off a group of teens harassing him outside his apartment building in Soundview around 4:34 p.m. Wednesday when Jonathan “J.J.” Melo happpened to roll by on a scooter. Melo was not part of the group harassing Tollinche, law enforcement sources confirmed.
The TikToker stabbed the teen in the back as he slowed down to see what was going on.
Tollinche, who goes by the handle DGB on TikTok, was arrested Sept. 18 and charged with rape, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for trying to have sex with an 11-year-old girl. During Tollinche’s arraignment in the sex abuse case, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office requested he be held on $75,000 bail, but a judge gave him supervised release and ordered he wear an ankle monitor.
Word of Tollinche’s arrest spread both online and throughout his neighborhood, catching the attention of area teens. When the teens were not harassing him on social media, they would sneak into his building and bang on his apartment door, startling both him and his mother, law enforcement sources confirmed.
Cops had been called to his home, and Tollinche recorded a few of these incidents and his interactions with police, which he posted on TikTok.
On Wednesday, the teens returned and began banging on his door. Tollinche’s mom confronted them with a broom, chasing them away, a law enforcement source said. A few minutes later, Tollinche came out, confronted a few of the teens, and stabbed Melo. The data from his ankle monitor helped detectives place Tollinche at the scene, law enforcement sources said.
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