A Michigan man who had a sizeable online following for exposing suspected sexual predators was fatally shot on Friday during a confrontation with two teens.
The Detroit Free Press reported that Robert Wayne Lee, 40, who went by Boopac Shakur, confronted a 17- and 18-year-old male at a Pontiac restaurant and accused one of them of being a pedophile. Lee allegedly then punched one of the teens, who responded by brandishing a knife while the other pulled out a gun and shot Lee several times.
The teens reportedly fled the restaurant but they were apprehended. Lee was pronounced dead at a hospital.
“There were two people at the table, one he was mostly focused on and talking to and became heated with was not the individual who shot him – it was the other person on the opposite side of the table,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said, according to WJBK.
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The Detroit Free Press reported that the gunman was the 17-year-old boy who was involved in the altercation with Lee.
Lee, who was affiliated with Dads Against Predators, posed online as a 15-year-old girl to expose suspected offenders on Facebook and Instagram. Police said his vigilante sting operations resulted in criminal charges against several men — but they also led to a false accusation.
Officials have not publicly named the two suspects. Prosecutors are expected to decide on Monday whether criminal charges will be filed in this case.
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