Stalker shows up at woman's workplace, begins punching her, cops say. But victim has a gun — and she uses it.



A stalker showed up at a woman's workplace in Pensacola, Florida, on Monday morning and began punching her, police said.

But the victim had a gun on her and shot the male once in the leg in self-defense, police added.

'She did nothing wrong. She was protecting herself like she should have done.'

Marquise James, 35, was arrested in connection with the 11:30 a.m. incident at the Downtown Pensacola Holiday Inn, WEAR-TV reported.

Marquise JamesImage source: Escambia County (Fla.) Jail

Records show James was in the Escambia County Jail on Friday morning on charges of stalking, battery, smuggle contraband, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, resisting an officer, and simple assault. His bond is set at $26,500.

Pensacola Police Officer Mike Wood told WEAR that the stalking "has been going on for quite some time" and that "this male individual has been ... using social media, using phones" to do so.

Wood added to the station that "he's come to her place of employment before, and she told him to leave, and he did. But this time when he came, he saw her in the laundry room, he approached her and began punching her."

With that, Wood told WEAR that the victim "drew a handgun that she had legally and shot him once in the leg."

"He's much larger than she is, and she did what she had to do," Wood noted to the station, adding that "she did nothing wrong. She was protecting herself like she should have done."

Police told WEAR that no charges are being filed against the woman.

Wood added to the station that when James "was at the hospital, he kicked one of our officers." Wood also told WEAR that James "had cocaine and marijuana on him."

You can view a video report here about the incident.

How are people reacting?

Commenters under WEAR's Facebook post about the incident appear squarely behind the victim:

  • "I am glad she protected herself," one commenter wrote. "I'm just worried about when he gets out."
  • "Put him under the jail," another user demanded.
  • "Glad she had a weapon," another commenter said.
  • "Good for her," another user declared.

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Why stalking can be extremely dangerous



The government isn’t the only entity going after Blaze’s investigative journalist Steve Baker.

Now, the man who has been unfairly persecuted for chasing the truth of what really happened on January 6 is dealing with a stalker, too.

“This newfound attention that I have is now bringing some of the crazies out of the woodwork,” Baker tells Pat Gray.

“This guy had flown in from Atlanta and to here. When he got to the airport at DFW, he actually did a selfie video that he posted on X saying that he was going to come here, and he was going to confront me and Beck, because we were part of this underground mafia that’s trying to overthrow the government, trying to take down Trump,” he explains.

When he made it to the parking lot of Mercury Studios, he began live streaming and walking around the building with a “sidekick” that he had picked up in Dallas.

“He picked up a sidekick in Dallas? Is this Batman that came to confront you,” Gray laughs.

A fearless security guard was able to scare the stalker and his comrade off, but a person like Baker doesn’t just attract one crazy person — he attracts many.

While Baker was in D.C. covering the sentencing hearing of the Oath Keepers, a woman flew from Chicago to confront Baker because he refused to cover the story she told him about the 20 brain implants she claims the government has put in her head.

“The more interesting part of her story was that for 20 years now, since this began, every single doctor that she has gone to to have these removed have all refused because they’re afraid that they’re going to be assassinated,” Baker explains.

“I don’t blame them,” Pat Gray jokes. “You start removing brain implants that the government put there, and you know you’re going to be in trouble.”


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LibsOfTikTok DOXXED by WaPo Stalker Taylor Lorenz | Ep 602

Ex-cop dad of 14-year-old TikTok star fatally shoots stalker who blew open family's front door with shotgun. Dad likely in the clear due to stand your ground law.



Imagine if your daughter, only 13, downloads TikTok and then after a year nabs more than a million followers — most of them male — who enjoy her lip-sync and dance clips.

Imagine one of her fans, an 18-year-old man, keeps trying to contact her, then buys photos of her — and even her cellphone number — from her friends, which he uses to call and text her.

Imagine this guy tells your daughter what he would pay for photos of her feet and rear end. Imagine if this fan sends your daughter hundreds of dollars in the hope that she will unblock him.

Imagine that you text this guy, inform him your daughter is a minor, and tell him stop contacting her.

Now imagine it doesn't work — and only gets worse. And in a a terrifying and deadly manner.

The aforementioned scenario is exactly what happened to TikTok star Ava Majury and her parents and siblings in the summer of 2020, according to the New York Times.

What are the details?

Indeed, Ava's 18-year-old stalker — Eric Rohan Justin of Ellicott City, Maryland — was getting downright scary. The Times said text messages that made their way to Ava indicated that he asked one of her male classmates if he had access to a “strap,” or gun, and shared plans to assault her — and added, “i could just breach the door with a shotgun i think.”

That's exactly what he did.

Early on July 10 that year, Justin showed up at the Majury home in Naples, Florida, and blew open the front door with a shotgun, the Times said.

With that, Ava’s father, Rob Majury — a retired police lieutenant who's the one who ordered Justin to stop contacting his daughter — chased after him but fell to the ground, the paper said.

When Majury got back to his house, he grabbed a gun and stood guard at the front door in case Justin returned before police arrived, the Times said.

Sure enough, Justin came back, the paper said.

Majury said he ordered him to drop his shotgun, but Majury fired when Justin instead pointed the weapon at him, the Times said.

By sunrise Justin lay dying, the paper reported.

Majury told the Times that police have assured him that under Florida's “stand your ground” law — which outlines legal use of deadly force — he was not subject to prosecution.

The aftermath

Despite the world of trouble Ava and her family experienced after she rose to fame on TikTok, the 14-year-old is still active on the popular social media platform, the paper said.

The Times noted that Ava's notoriety has translated into thousands of dollars in sponsorship deals and interest from Hollywood, including from reality TV producers.

“I have three TikTok accounts, so I could have one brand come to me and be like, ‘Oh, I’ll do $1,000 for one video on your main account,’ and I’ll be like, ‘Oh great, I have two other accounts that are different types of people on there,’” Ava explained to the paper. “So altogether, I’m making $1,700 off just my name, because I opened up three accounts rather than just building off one.”

Her dad added to the Times that Ava's "creations, her contacts, her videos became such a big part of her that to take it away would have been hard." Her mother Kim noted to the Times that "we chose what’s best for our family. We know there are going to be two sides, and some people won’t understand.″⁣

Still, not long after her dad shot her stalker dead, Ava got messages from a man who referred to her as “baby girl" and offered to pay $1,000 a month for her phone number, the paper said, adding that Ava's mom and dad found out his name matches the name of a registered sex offender who had been arrested for soliciting a 14-year-old girl.

What's more, Ava told her parents that the boy who received Justin’s menacing messages was following and watching her, the Times said, and another classmate recorded a video of himself firing at a shooting range and sent the clip to Ava.

Finally Ava withdrew from school this month, the paper said, and now she attends class from home.

Nevertheless her mom told the Times she doesn't want “sick individuals” to force Ava to shun social media: “Why should we allow them to stop her? Maybe she’s meant to bring awareness to all this."

(H/T: The Daily Wire)