A homeless man at the center of a touching TikTok video that generated $400,000 in donations allegedly has a violent past, according to a report.
A viral video posted on social media showed a fashion intern walking alongside a man who asked her for tea before the two ended up spending the day together.
Vlogger Sanai Graden ended up putting him up in a hotel room and helped pay for his medication.
The touching story took a sudden turn this week. Tik Tok
Graden subsequently launched a fundraiser for the man, who is also battling cancer, and a staggering $403,000 has already been raised.
“He ordered tea and the rest is history,” Sanai Graden, who recently moved to the nation’s capital to attend college, told Fox 5 DC in an interview this week.
But the same station later found a woman who says she was once brutally beaten by the same man in the video, and who apparently has a criminal record.
The homeless man was identified as Alonzo Douglas Hebron by the victim, according to Fox 5 DC.
The woman identified the man as the same person who attacked her. FOX5
“I am speechless,” he said of the viral video in which he appears. “I don’t understand how a human being can act like that. He is a sociopath. He has no feeling of remorse.”
D.C. police said in a June 2020 news release that Hebron assaulted a woman and robbed her before fleeing the scene. He was arrested days later. Footage of the attack showed a man placing a scarf over her head while she slept outside a Methodist church before she was beaten, Fox 5 DC reported.
The attack occurred in 2020. FOX5
Hebron was sentenced to five years in prison in 2012 after stabbing a man in the back with a screwdriver during a fight, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said at the time. The victim bled profusely from the stabbing and was rushed to the hospital.
The woman who spoke to Fox 5 DC said she doesn’t blame Graden for helping him.
The charitable effort has still been praised.
“I was heartbroken,” the woman, who did not want to be identified, said as she watched the TikTok video of the good deed.
“First of all, congratulations to the woman who made this. She meant well and I applaud her for that. I know it was a lot of work for her to do it, but to portray it as something she just isn’t…”
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