Retired police lieutenant Robert Majury shot and killed 18-year-old intruder Eric Rohan Justin outside his Naples, Florida home on July 10, 2021, after Justin targeted his teenage daughter Ava Grace Majury.
Majury was awakened around 4:30 a.m. when a shotgun blast shattered the front door of the family home. He investigated to find Justin standing in the front entranceway wearing ear protectors, clear protective glasses, and what appeared to be a blue Walmart vest.
When Justin stepped onto the front lawn, his weapon jammed and he fled. Majury, a 55-year-old former Jersey City Police Department lieutenant who retired in March 2020 after 25 years of service, retrieved his licensed firearm from his bedroom and guarded the entrance while waiting for police. When Justin reappeared around the side of the house and raised his weapon, Majury fired and killed him.
An incident report from the Collier County Sheriff's Office later revealed that Justin was a stalker who had tracked down the family home after following Ava's extensive social media presence. Majury was not charged in the shooting because Florida law permits the use of deadly force in self-defense under its Stand Your Ground statute.
Speaking to ABC News after the incident, Majury defended his actions. "Someone came to kill me," Majury said. "I was in fear for my family's life, and I had to do what I had to do to protect my family, and I made sure of it."
Stalker Travelled Across State Lines
Justin, an 18-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland, drove more than 1,000 miles to Florida armed with a shotgun just one month after graduating from Mount Hebron High School in 2021. He was born in Massachusetts in October 2002 to Justin Dominic, a software engineer, and Jennifer Yesudhason, who married in India in December 2001 before filing for divorce in 2015, which was finalized in July 2018.
The harassment began in early 2020 under the username EricJustin111, when Justin started commenting under Ava's TikTok videos. As her online following grew, he expanded his messages to her Instagram and Snapchat accounts.
Ava explained the early harassment in an interview with ABC News. "I started seeing some comments that were a bit creepy for a 13-year-old to be getting so I had him blocked," she said. "Then I realized that they started coming in on different accounts."
With her parents' permission, Ava initially sold Justin two selfies she had already posted publicly on Snapchat for $300 total in an effort to appease him. However, Justin became insatiable, sending messages on digital payment platform Venmo requesting explicit photos and pictures of her feet.
Robert Majury subsequently sent a text message directly to Justin, warning him that Ava was underage and demanding he stop contacting her. Majury told Good Morning America that Justin appeared apologetic at the time, concealing what he described as a diabolical plan to show up at their home.
Majury admitted he had initially discredited the threatening messages, viewing Justin as a keyboard warrior. The family had moved from Manalapan, New Jersey, to Naples, Florida, in 2019. Ava lived there with her parents and her brothers Evan, 21, and Logan, 15. Her mother Kim Majury, 50, a former ultrasound technologist, works as a recruiter for a behavioral and mental health therapy service.
Classmate Accused in Follow-Up Stalking Petition
Six months after the fatal shooting, Ava faced additional stalking concerns involving a high school classmate. In January 2022, Robert Majury filed a protective order application in Collier County court on behalf of his daughter against 20-year-old classmate Drew Thompson.
The filing alleged that Thompson had provided Ava's personal information, including her cellphone number, to Justin over Snapchat in exchange for payments on Venmo. Majury stated that Thompson's menacing behavior was reported to Naples High School to no avail, causing Ava to switch to remote learning before graduating in 2024.
An office manager for Naples High School told the Daily Mail the school does not publicly discuss former students and had no knowledge of how the incident was handled at the time. During a court hearing in February 2022, Ava testified that the ordeal caused her to suffer nightmares.
Thompson's attorney, Kristen Rodger, told Gulf Coast News that Thompson only communicated with Justin because Majury asked him to help gather information for a police report. A Florida judge denied the petition, ruling there was insufficient evidence against Thompson to issue an injunction. Thompson declined to comment when contacted by the Daily Mail and hung up the phone.
Growth of Minor Influencer Industry
Ava downloaded TikTok at age 13 during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, posting dance and lip-sync videos that attracted over one million followers within a year. By 2020, she was earning $1,000 for a single sponsored post on the platform.
In October 2021, three months after the shooting, Ava founded AGM Creations with her parents serving as managers. Florida public records show the family expanded their commercial operations with AGM Projects LLC in June 2025 and AGM Socials LLC in July 2025, with both parents listed as authorized persons.
Safety advocates have highlighted the risks facing underage creators as social media careers grow in popularity. A 2023 report from Morning Consult found that more than half of Gen Z respondents in the United States want to be influencers.
Titania Jordan, child safety advocate and chief parenting officer at Bark Technologies, expressed concern over child influencers. "The whole kid influencer thing really icks me out, and in the age of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, parents need to be extra careful about posting anything of their kids online," Jordan told the Daily Mail. She noted that while smaller creators charge around $600 per post, influencers with one million followers can earn up to $10,000 per sponsored post.
Now 19 and settling into college according to a family attorney, Ava maintains more than 1.18 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, where her content has shifted toward beauty and makeup tutorials.
She also monetizes content on Passes, a platform that prohibits explicit material. Ava offers three subscription tiers: a close friends tier for $9.99 per month, a private circle tier for $20 per month providing wall access and 19 direct messages, and a favorites tier for nearly $50 per month for all-access chatting and exclusive livestreams.
Jordan stressed the necessity of strict parental boundaries for online minors. "You are their first line of defense, which means you co-manage the account, you have full visibility into the direct messages, you lock down privacy settings, you disable location features, and you set hard ground rules around what never gets posted," Jordan said. She added that stalkers need only one piece of information to cause harm.
