A homeless man at the center of a heartwarming TikTok video that led to $400,000 in donations allegedly has a violent past, according to reports.
A viral video posted on social media shows a fashion intern being approached by a man asking for tea before the two spend the day together.
Vlogger, Sanai Graden, eventually put her up in a hotel room and helped pay for her medication.
That touching story took a sudden turn this week. Tick tock
Graden later launched a fundraiser for the man, who is also battling cancer, and a staggering $403,000 was raised.
“He asked for tea and the rest is history,” Sanai Graden, who recently moved to the nation’s capital for college, told Fox 5 DC in an interview this week.
But the same station later found a woman who said she had been brutally beaten by the same man in the video – and who apparently had a criminal rap sheet.
The homeless man was identified as Alonzo Douglas Hebron by the victim, according to Fox 5 DC.
The woman denounced the man as the same person who attacked her. FOX5
“I’m stuck,” he said of the viral video featuring him. “I don’t understand how people can act like this. He is a sociopath. He has no remorse.”
DC police said in a June 2020 news release that Hebron assaulted a woman and stole from her before fleeing the scene. He was arrested a few days later. Footage of the attack showed a man placing a scarf over his head as he slept outside a Methodist church before he was beaten, Fox 5 DC reported.
The attack happened in 2020. FOX5
Hebron was sentenced to five years in prison in 2012 after he stabbed a man in the back with a screwdriver during a fight, the US Attorney’s Office said at the time. The victim bled profusely as a result of the stabbing and was rushed to the hospital.
The woman who spoke to Fox 5 DC said she doesn’t blame Graden for helping her.
The charity effort is still praised.
“I’m heartbroken,” said the woman, who did not want to be identified, as she watched a TikTok video of the act of kindness.
“First of all – kudos to the women who did this. He means well, and I commend him for that. I know it’s a lot of work for him to do that, but portray him as something he’s not…”
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