'Whole situation was about egos': Teen TikTok star gunned down on beach hours after making a selfie video in that same spot, prosecutors say

Two radical successful New Jersey are facing charges for allegedly attacking and gunning down a fashionable TikTok prima connected a formation wherever helium was filming and posting videos conscionable hours earlier.

Chrystofer Whyte, 18, tin beryllium seen successful his very past TikTok post signaling a selfie video connected a formation successful Long Branch connected June 12 earlier being changeable and killed determination aboriginal successful the evening conscionable earlier 9 p.m., the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office reports.

Whyte was successful a formation country betwixt the shoreline and the boardwalk of Pier Village erstwhile suspects Dwayne Exilus, 18, of Woodbridge, and a insignificant who is not being identified owed to his property allegedly opened occurrence connected him. An outdoor euphony performance had conscionable wrapped up astatine Pier Village, starring to scores of radical getting caught successful the crossfire.

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Cellphone video captured by locals shows the mayhem unfold.

The juvenile fishy allegedly changeable Whyte aggregate times, portion Exilus is said to person missed. It's unclear what the motive was exactly, with friends pointing to alleged feuds with section kids who person been caught during TikTok Live videos "antagonizing" Whyte and "calling him names" successful the comments, according to Patch. Police and prosecutors person not provided immoderate details connected what prompted Exilus and the underage lad to sprout Whyte, nor person they revealed what happened earlier the bullets started flying.

"I deliberation this full concern was astir egos," said Whyte's pal, Jaiden Roche, 19, who started a GoFundMe for Whyte's household and spoke to Patch, arsenic good arsenic police, astir the alleged TikTok beef past month.

"They saw his TikTok station and they ended up coming to the beach," Roche said, noting however helium was determination and allegedly witnessed everything. "They came to the formation knowing they would commencement problems," Roche told Patch. "He had told these kids, let's fight. I conjecture these kids had thing much than a combat successful mind."

Whyte was recovered fatally changeable connected the boardwalk successful Long Branch connected the nighttime helium died. The teen was well-known locally for shot and wrestling astatine Woodbridge High School, according to Patch and different media outlets. He had much than 90,000 followers connected TikTok astatine the clip of his death.

"It was conscionable to person a bully time astatine the formation with his friends," Roche said. "He was doing TikTok afloat clip and helium was making a bully surviving with it, too."

Prosecutors person charged Exilus and the underage fishy with aggregate crimes successful transportation to Whyte's death, with the juvenile getting deed with execution and conspiracy to perpetrate unlawful possession of a limb charges. Exilus is facing conspiracy to perpetrate unlawful possession of a limb charges arsenic well, successful summation to unlawful possession of a limb and hindering. The charges were announced Monday by Monmouth County.